US News

Open-&-shut case

Being in a relationship can carry a lot of baggage.

A 19-year-old pregnant woman literally tried to wheel her drug-kingpin boyfriend out of a Mexican prison in a piece of luggage small enough to fit into an airplane’s overhead bin.

Inmate Juan Ramírez Tijerina was packed and ready to go after a conjugal visit on Saturday.

But as his nervous teenage sweetheart, Maria del Mar Arjona, tried to heave the overstuffed suitcase up a staircase to the prison exit, it bounced off a step and started moving.

She told suspicious guards it contained the inmate’s dirty clothes.

But that didn’t wash — when they opened it, they found Tijerina inside in just his socks and shorts.

Tijerina, who was serving a 20-year-sentence, put his hands over his face as guards quickly snapped a photo of the dumbest escape attempt ever.

Both the prisoner and his girlfriend were bagged at the scene.