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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A sixth person has been arrested and accused of helping and harboring two violent inmates who made a daring escape from a prisoner transport van last month.

Felice Maes, the aunt of escapee Joseph Cruz, was arrested Sunday and now faces four felony charges for allegedly giving the escaped inmates a ride and a wad of cash while they were on the run. Maes is also identified as Felice Mariani in jail records.

Authorities say inmates Lionel Clah and Cruz were being transferred to a Las Cruces prison March 9 when they were able to sneak out the back door while the prisoner transport van they were in made a fuel stop at a convenience store in Artesia.

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A man who was pumping gasoline saw the men run to the back of the convenience store and offered to help them, according to police. Jesus Quintana loaded them into his car, gave them beer and took them to his home, where they got their shackles off and changed clothing, according to court records filed against Quintana.

Quintana then drove the escapees to Albuquerque so Cruz could meet his girlfriend, Patricia Petrushkin, at a local motel, according to police.

That’s when Maes got involved, according to the criminal complaint filed against her.

Clah told police he called Maes, who picked the two of them up from the motel in a four-door Cadillac with tinted windows and rims.

Maes then gave Cruz $100, according to the complaint.

She drove Cruz and Clah to a Northeast Albuquerque apartment complex where Cruz’s sister, Olivia Cruz, was staying. Olivia Cruz’s girlfriend, Celeste Salcido, met up with the escapees, according to court records.

Joseph Cruz was captured a day later.

Police say Lionel Clah hid out with Olivia Cruz’s neighbor, Michelle Abeyta, and he was arrested March 12 when she turned him in.

Quintana, Petrushkin, Olivia Cruz, Salcido and Abeyta were all arrested in the weeks following the escape. Salcido and a woman she was living with confirmed to police that Maes had dropped the inmates off at the apartment complex near Morris and Montgomery NE after their escape.

Maes was charged with two counts of harboring or aiding a felon and two counts of assisting escape, and was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center early Monday morning.

Journal staff writer Elise Kaplan contributed to this report.