Moment gang leader ‘Cute Chubby’ dresses up as a woman while escaping from Paraguay prison

Surveillance footage captured the moment a top leader of a Latin American drug gang dressed as a woman attempted to escape a Paraguay prison.

Cesar Ortiz, also known as ‘Gordito Lindo’ or ‘Cute Chubby’, violated security protocol at the infamous Takumbu National Penitentiary in the nation’s capital Asuncion in May.

Local media outlets reported that the 36-year-old, who is identified as the second person operating the Rotella clan, received a prison visit from a woman who had accompanied him to a private room.

Cesar Ortiz (right) was arrested hours after escaping from prison in Paraguay, dressed as a woman (right).

César Ortiz (centre) was sentenced in 2019 to eight years in prison for the robbery of a gas station in Paraguay’s capital, Asuncion.

At some point during the trip, she swapped out her prison dress for an olive blouse and blue skirt.

Ortiz painted his fingernails with white polish, put on fake eyelashes, applied makeup to his face, and threw on a wig.

Officials said Ortiz could not be traced as he passed several checkpoints before a guard opened the prison’s exit gate.

Police found Ortiz several blocks away from the prison and arrested three others who were allegedly part of a prison break plot as they were about to take him to a hideout in the central region of Paraguay.

Ortiz was moved to the Emboscada National Peninsula in the municipality of Emboscada, 32 miles from Asuncion.

A surveillance camera still image shows the escape of Cesar Ortiz from the Tacumbu National Penitentiary in Asuncion, Paraguay in May

The dress was worn by Cesar Ortiz as a woman on May 29 escaping a prison in Paraguay. He was saved as he was recaptured several hours later in the vicinity of the prison as he was about to board a vehicle to be taken. for a hideout in the central region of the country

Jessica Salinas asked authorities to relocate her husband back to Tacumbe National Peninsula, saying prison guards could not guarantee his well-being in Emboscada Prison.

The Rotella clan is in an ongoing battle with Brazil’s most powerful prison gang and cocaine exporter – First Capital Command – to control the drug trade in Paraguay’s prison system.

The Justice Ministry ordered an investigation by at least 20 prison guards in connection with Ortiz’s escape.

At least four people have been detained, including Rolan Figueroa, who was re-enlisted with the San Pedro Police Department in June 2021 after serving a six-year drug trafficking sentence.

One of the other accomplices who escaped from prison was identified as Victor Paredes, Ortiz’s brother-in-law.

He was wanted on March 1 for the murder of a woman employed as a maid by the Infran clan, a well-known family involved in drug trafficking and money laundering.

Cesar Ortiz Ortiz has been jailed at the Tacumbu National Penitentiary since 2019, serving eight years in prison after arresting him and three other suspects for robbing nearly $4,400 from a gas station in Asuncion, Paraguay.

Ortiz was jailed at the Tacumbu National Penitentiary since 2019, according to the Paraguayan newspaper El Nacional, after he and three other suspects were sentenced to eight years for robbing about $4,400 from a gas station in Asuncion .

In February 2021, Ortiz led a riot at the prison after officers discovered an underground tunnel that was under construction for a planned escape.

At least seven prisoners were allegedly murdered for exposing the plan.

Ortiz was charged with murder, hostage-taking, organizing a prison riot, and having links to a criminal organization.