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WARMINGTON: Breaking into prison to break out an inmate harder than stealing cars

It’s not every day you hear of people trying to “break into jail.”
The entrance of the Roy McMurtry Youth Centre in Brampton is pictured on March 29, 2023.

Turns out trying to break a fellow criminal out of the slammer is not as easy as stealing cars.

But this crew seems to have given it their best shot anyway.

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Two men who tried to break their pal out of a youth prison on Monday are believed to be connected to an auto-theft ring out of Montreal. It is also believed the 18-year-old they tried to spring from Brampton’s Roy McMurtry Youth Centre is from Montreal and is in custody awaiting sentencing on auto-theft charges.

Peel Regional Police are still searching for the two men who managed to break through several secure checkpoints of the prison on McLaughlin Rd. S. before being scared off by a guard who chased them away around 2:15 a.m.

Two other suspects affiliated with a car-theft operation were taken into custody and dropped off at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton, possibly as a precaution to avoid another such incident.

Meanwhile, the RMYC is currently working on repairing damage to a fence, windows and other infrastructure. This was a situation that tested the facility’s security and it appears it passed the test.

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The bottom line is even though there was an attempt to extract a youth from a cell, the attempt proved unsuccessful and lessons will be learned from this incident.

“All of it will be reviewed,” said an insider.

While the men who tried to pull of the daring breakout went further than anyone ever has before, they ran into an alert staff and secret security measures they were not prepared for.

“The defences held,” said one employee. “The inmate they were after was moved to another area and they were not able to get to him.”

But they were able to get away in a car. No word yet if it was stolen though.

jwarmington@postmedia.com