Teenager flees jail for fifth time

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy accused of killing a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent has escaped from a juvenile prison for the fifth time in three years - just as he promised.

Herlan Colindres, a street gang member implicated in 16 other killings, slipped out of the crumbling juvenile rehabilitation centre in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Friday, said national police director of criminal investigations Napoleon Nazar.

Colindres and his 13-year-old bodyguard were arrested in July in relation to the killing of Michael Timothy Markey, a DEA agent who was shot to death on July 29 outside of Tegucigalpa.