Escaped Prisoner Captured After Two Week Manhunt
How authorities used heat technology and a dog named Yoda to capture the convict
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🗞 ESCAPED KILLER CAPTURED AFTER DRAMATIC MANHUNT
via Pennsylvania State Police
The convicted murderer who escaped a Pennsylvania prison two weeks ago was taken into custody on Wednesday morning about 30 miles from where he escaped. It ends a massive manhunt that involved hundreds of law enforcement officials searching the area.
Convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante faces life behind bars after he was convicted last month of murdering his former girlfriend in front of her two young children. He’s also wanted for a 2017 homicide case in Brazil.
HOW THEY GOT HIM: A PLANE, A STORM, AND A HERO DOG
Meet Yoda, a 4 year-old Belgian Malinois.
Police received a number of tips over the course of two weeks, and on Tuesday, they sectioned off an 8- to 10-square-mile perimeter in northern Chester County, just west of Philadelphia. By early Wednesday they finally began to close in on him.
12 AM: A burglar alarm went off at a residence within the perimeter, which was investigated but with no sighting of Cavalcante.
1 AM: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration aircraft picked up a heat-seeking signal and started to track it as tactical teams arrived.
A lightning storm forced the aircraft to leave the area, slowing the tracking process. Law enforcement secured the area and waited overnight until the tracking could begin again
8 AM: Tactical teams surrounded the heat source in a wooded area west of PA 100.
Cavalcante tried to escape through an underbrush with a rifle he had stolen from a nearby house with an open garage.
Yoda, a 4 year old Belgian Malinois who is part of the US Border Patrol tactical unit, eventually caught up with him and bit him. Cavalcante was captured without any shots fired.
A ‘CRAB WALK’ OUT OF PRISON
Cavalcante makes his escape from Chester County Prison.
Cavalcante’s escape from the Chester County Prison has raised concerns over what seem to be clear security breaches. The 5-foot-2, 120-pound convicted murderer was seen on camera, crab-walking up parallel walls onto the roof of the prison.
Just a few weeks earlier, another inmate, Igor Bolte, also got away by scaling the walls. He was captured after a few minutes.
The prison added barbed wire on the roof as an additional security measure, but it was clearly not enough.
SECURITY CONCERNS
Since the escape, the 18-year veteran guard who was on duty has been fired. Commissioners have said that changes are being implemented immediately to reinforce security measures.
The guard on duty was searched and found to be carrying his personal cellphone, which was in violation of prison rules.
AND THE STOLEN EAGLES SWEATSHIRTS?
When Cavalcante was found, he was wearing a Philadelphia Eagles sweatshirt, stolen from someone’s home in the area.
PA Governor Josh Shapiro has promised to replace any stolen sweatshirts (there were at least two taken), and upgrade them to the latest team colors.
✔︎ Mo News Reality Check: We have gotten a lot of questions about Cavalcante’s immigration status. He is an undocumented immigrant who arrived from Brazil in the last few years (exact date unknown), one of more than 11 million people estimated to illegally be in the US.
US officials were first alerted to him being in the country when he murdered his girlfriend here in 2021. So, why wasn’t he then deported back to Brazil?
Migrants who are in the US illegally, and are charged with relatively minor offenses here, are often sent back to their homelands. However, for serious crimes, people who are tried and convicted must serve their time here, with rare exceptions.
Because other countries are not required to jail people on the basis of U.S. convictions, keeping people imprisoned domestically ensures that they serve their full sentence and justice is served. Notably, in Cavalcante’s case, he is also wanted for a 2017 murder back in Brazil.
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