The convicted murderer who escaped from a prison in Pennsylvania, United States, almost two weeks ago was taken into custody this Wednesday morning (13), state police announced, ending a manhunt that drew hundreds of agents to the area and left the population gripped by fear.
“Our nightmare is finally over,” Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan said this morning.
The capture of Danilo Cavalcante, 34, around 8 a.m. Wednesday in Chester County involved an aircraft, a lightning storm, a police dog and more than 20 tactical officers, authorities said.
Around 1 a.m. Wednesday, an aircraft flying above the search area picked up a heat signal on the ground, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said at a news conference.
A storm arrived and lightning forced the aircraft out, and a tactical team of 20 to 25 officers secured the area and waited out the storm until morning.
Cavalcante was sleeping when police found him on top of a rifle he had stolen from a resident of the region on Monday night.
Officers took Cavalcante by surprise, and he tried to flee by crawling through the vegetation with his rifle in his hand, Bivens said. A police dog was released and bit him, preventing him from using the rifle, and the police took him into custody.
Bivens described Cavalcante as “defiant and still resisting arrest” and noted that the dog left him with a scalp wound.
“When the dog got to him, he fell with the dog on top of him – the dog managed to stop him,” Bivens said. “I was told the rifle was within arm’s reach.”
The video from KYW, an affiliate of CNN about the aftermath of his capture shows Cavalcante handcuffed and being escorted by more than a dozen heavily armed police officers to the back of a Special Response Team armored vehicle.
Cavalcante had blood on his face and was wearing dark pants and a Philadelphia Eagles sweatshirt, which was cut from his body before being placed in the vehicle.
Several officers also posed for a group photo with the fugitive and the rifle.
No one else was injured during the capture, Bivens said. “For me, the biggest sense of relief is that no one in the community was hurt and no police officers were hurt,” she said.
Cavalcante was a “desperate man” during his nearly two weeks on the run, surviving on a watermelon he found on a farm and drinking water from a creek, Robert Clark, supervising deputy U.S. marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said Wednesday. fair.
Clark cited what deputies told him about an interview Cavalcante had with police officers after the fugitive’s capture.
“He was actively avoiding arrest, and shortly after he escaped, he hunkered down in an area that was very isolated, very wooded, and didn’t move for the first few days,” said Clark, who did not speak with Cavalcante directly.
Cavalcante also told authorities he planned to kidnap someone by Thursday and drive to Canada to continue evading authorities, Clark told CNN .
“He said there was a huge police presence where he was and he felt he needed to leave,” Clark said.
Source: CNN Brasil
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