![]() ![]() Lyman said five granola bars were missing from the trailer. Police official defends officers' group photo with captured fugitive: 'They're proud of their work'Ĭharles Lyman, who owns a farm that was searched twice, said he believed Cavalcante was on his property: once in a horse trailer, another time in a tree house. No shots were fired, police said.Įscaped inmate Danelo Cavalcante is captured by law enforcement on Wednesday, September 13. He tried to crawl through thick underbrush and resisted as a police dog named Yoda bit and subdued him. 22-caliber rifle, the fugitive was taken into custody in a wooded area about 15 miles north of the prison where he had been held. He then ran across a roof, scaled a fence and pushed his way through razor wire to freedom.ĭuring 14 days on the lam, he managed to elude capture despite being spotted numerous times in Chester County, stealing a van that ran out of gas and showing up at the homes of people he knew years ago more than 20 miles outside the search perimeter.Įarly Wednesday, a small army of state and federal law enforcement officers, alerted by a tripped burglar alarm just after midnight, captured the inmate. Cavalcante employed a climbing technique that another inmate used to escape in May. The convicted murderer then ascended in a crab-walk until he disappeared from the view of a surveillance camera. Danilo Cavalcante, at 5 feet tall, seemed the perfect fit as he wedged himself in the narrow space between the walls in an exercise yard of the Chester County Prison on the morning of August 31.
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