Porter couple arrested in Ft. Worth jailbreak

There are few details about it so far, but a Porter couple was arrested yesterday for helping a convicted robber escape from a Fort Worth lockup. The escapee in question is Eladio Diaz Jr., who was last seen Sunday night at the North Texas Intermediate Sanction Facility, a minimum-security compound for parole violators; Jose Chavez and his wife, Jacqueline Diaz Chavez — Eladio Diaz's sister — were arrested for allegedly helping Diaz break out.

Diaz originally received a 25-year prison sentence for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon in Nueces County on the South Texas coast. He was jailed in 1991 and was released on parole in December 2003. Last November, Diaz was arrested again in Nueces County on charges of making a terroristic threat. In late December, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to revoke his supervision and assigned him to the Fort Worth lockup; officials say he disappeared from there shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday.

Authorities believe Diaz may either be in the Dallas-Fort Worth or Houston areas; he's described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, 158 pounds with brown hair and eyes. Officers from the state Department of Criminal Justice, Fort Worth police and other officials are on the lookout for him; meanwhile, the Chavezes are being held at the Montgomery County Jail on $5,000 bond each.