Hunt for Texas seven 'biggest in state history'
Texas police are continuing the biggest manhunt in state history - a search for seven escaped convicts believed to be using stolen police scanners to steer clear of the law.
A £70,000 reward is now on offer after the seven broke out of the Connally prison in Karnes City with a cache of weapons on December 13.
The group are suspected of at least two robberies and killing a police officer since their escape.
They left a note warning "You haven't heard the last of us yet".
Prison officials say the search is now concentrated in the Dallas area and all seven are still believed to be together.
The break-out is the biggest escape from a Texas state prison in modern history. Texas has recaptured all but one of the 143 inmates who escaped from its state prisons in the past 10 years.
Officials say the gang has amassed an arsenal of more than 40 weapons stolen during the prison break on December 13 and a robbery at a sports shop on Christmas Eve in which a police officer was shot dead.
The FBI has drawn up psychological profiles of the seven, and investigators believe the ringleader is George Rivas, 30, who was serving a life sentence for aggravated robbery and kidnapping and had been implicated in more than a dozen robberies since 1987.
All seven convicts - two killers, two armed robbers, a child abuser, a serial rapist and a burglar - are being sought on capital murder charges for the police officer's murder.
