Another prisoner was recaptured in Maués Disclosure A man identified as Henrique Bernardo de Azevedo Mendonça was recaptured by security forces in Maués, in the interior of Amazonas. He was one of the inmates who escaped from the municipality's prison unit on December 24 last year, during Christmas Eve. The capture took place on Monday afternoon (8). ➡️In the escape14 inmates escaped from the unit during the inmates' sunbathing moment. Among the fugitives were those convicted of robbery, murder and drug trafficking. The unit, opened in the first half of the year, has capacity for 100 inmates, functions as a regional prison and receives inmates from Maués and six other municipalities in the Lower Amazon region. The arrest took place at a residence located in the Senador José Esteves neighborhood, after the police received an anonymous tip. The action was coordinated by agents from the State Secretariat for Penitentiary Administration (Seap), together with military police officers from the 10th Independent Military Police Company (CIPM). According to police, the man offered no resistance when approached. In the property where the fugitive was hiding, the teams seized: A 20 gauge shotgun; An intact ammunition; A cell phone; R$470 in cash. Mass escape from the Maués prison unit: police still looking for inmates The mass escape At the time of the escape, 14 inmates managed to escape from the Maués Prison Unit during sunbathing hours. According to investigations, the prisoners sawed through the structure's bars and managed to access the external area. The police highlighted, at the time, that the fact that the prison was surrounded by a dense forest area made it easier for inmates to disperse and escape. Almost six months after the episode, security forces reported that ten of the fugitives have already been located and returned to the prison system. However, police continue to search for four other men who remain at large. They are: Vitor Gabriel Gonçalves Pantoja Robert William Gonçalves Pantoja Dioncemar de Oliveira Rodrigues Luiz Prestes Caldeira Neto The Civil Police and Military Police ask for the public's collaboration to locate the suspects. Information about the whereabouts of any of the four fugitives can be passed on anonymously and confidentially via the hotline 181 or the emergency telephone number 190. READ ALSO Find out what the new PM prison unit is like, where more than 70 police officers arrested in Amazonas were transferred Manaus prisons have a capacity of up to 167% above capacity, points out CNJ