Police in Pennsylvania expanded the size of their search area for escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who broke free from a state prison last Thursday, to between eight and 10 square miles, as the manhunt for the man police call “very dangerous” prolongs into its second week.
A video shared by the Chester County Prison shows prisoner Danelo Cavalcante, a native Brazilian, ... [+]
After five confirmed sightings since Cavalcante’s escape from prison, one resident reported they had seen him running in a field, where police officials have searched on foot and by horse, as well as with a helicopter, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said in a press conference Thursday afternoon.
The search area has grown from a roughly two-mile radius police had given on Saturday, following Cavalcante’s escape from Chester County Prison, just over 20 miles west of Philadelphia.
Cavalcante had sandwiched himself between two walls inside the prison and crab-walked up before running across a roof and scaling a fence topped with razor wire, local officials confirmed in a press conference on Wednesday, releasing a video of his escape.
$20,000. That’s the reward offered for information that leads to Cavalcante’s capture.
In a separate manhunt, officials in Washington D.C. are searching for a murder suspect who escaped police custody at George Washington University Hospital, prompting GW to temporarily issue a shelter-in-place order for university students on Wednesday. Police did not say where murder suspect Christopher Haynes is hiding, but that they believe he is wearing a black shirt and gray shorts.