{"id":26094,"date":"2023-09-13T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=26094"},"modified":"2023-09-13T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:54:49","slug":"danelo-cavalcante-police-dog-subdued-crawling-pennsylvania-fugitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/09\/13\/danelo-cavalcante-police-dog-subdued-crawling-pennsylvania-fugitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Danelo Cavalcante: Police dog ‘subdued’ crawling Pennsylvania fugitive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A police dog set upon a fugitive as he tried to crawl away in thick underbrush two weeks after his escape from a prison in the US state of Pennsylvania, authorities have said.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was arrested in a wooded area after an aircraft picked up his heat signal overnight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 500 officers hunted him down after he escaped on 31 August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was sentenced last month to life for killing his ex-girlfriend in front of her two young children in April 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At a news conference, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said Cavalcante was “apprehended with no shots fired” shortly after 08:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He credited the “extraordinary work” of law enforcement and “a tremendous assist from members of the public” for Cavalcante’s capture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police told reporters that a search team of mounted patrols, dogs and aircraft had fanned out over the woods of South Coventry Township through rain and thunder overnight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Law enforcement were drawn closer to Cavalcante by a burglar alarm at a home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Drug Enforcement Administration plane picked up a heat signal on the ground at 01:00, but the aircraft had to fly away because of the foul weather.<\/p>\n

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A tactical team of around two dozen officers began closing in on the heat source at around 04:00, ultimately pinpointing Cavalcante four hours later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pennsylvania State Police Lt Colonel George Bivens told the news conference: “They were able to move in very quietly. They had the element of surprise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Cavalcante did not realise he was surrounded until that had occurred. That did not stop him from trying to escape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“He began to crawl through thick underbrush taking his [stolen] rifle with him as he went.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A US Customs and Border Protection unit from Texas, with at least one dog, was part of the tactical team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The dog “subdued” Cavalcante as he tried to make his getaway, leaving him with a “minor bite wound”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“He continued to resist but was forcibly taken into custody,” said Lt Col Bivens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cavalcante was left with “a scalp wound” and will be “medically assessed” before being taken to a prison facility, said officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He will appear in court on a felony escape charge in the near future, Philadelphia’s attorney general said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Local media footage shows a handcuffed Cavalcante, in a dirty Philadelphia Eagles sweatshirt, being escorted to an armoured black police van.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A large team of officers in camouflage uniforms is seen posing for photos with their captive before cutting him out of the hoodie and loading him into the vehicle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lt Col Bivens said he was “not bothered at all” that officers had taken the picture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Those men and women work amazingly hard through some very trying circumstances. They’re proud of their work,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chester County’s three commissioners said in a joint statement that Cavalcante’s capture “ends the nightmare of the past two weeks”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They said prison officials had made “some immediate changes to bolster security in the prison”, including hiring new security contractors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Just a week after being sentenced to life without parole, Cavalcante “crab-walked” between two walls and scaled a razor-wire fence to escape Chester County Prison, about 30 miles (50km) west of Philadelphia, where he had been awaiting transfer to a different facility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His method of escape was the same used by another inmate, Igor Bolte, in May. The glaring security lapse at the prison and the lone fugitive’s evasion of a manhunt involving officers equipped with night-vision goggles, dogs, drones and aerial support for a fortnight embarrassed the authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Residents of Chester County had been on edge amid multiple recent sightings, with one local TV station even reporting an uptick in sales at gun shops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While on the run, police said Cavalcante had tried to contact associates, including his sister. She did not help him and was later taken into custody for an immigration violation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Tuesday, they warned that the escaped murderer had entered an open garage in the area and fled with a .22 calibre rifle as the homeowner fired several shots in his direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Family members of the ex-girlfriend he murdered, Deborah Brand\u00e3o, have been under 24-hour police protection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cavalcante’s escape and arrest have made headlines in his native Brazil, where social media users celebrated the end of the manhunt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In an interview with Brazilian news website G1, Brand\u00e3o’s sister said that the arrest “brings a lot of relief”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We were afraid that he would seek revenge against my family,” Silvia Brand\u00e3o told the outlet. “We were very afraid because you know what he is capable of.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition to murdering Brand\u00e3o, Cavalcante is accused of murdering a young friend over an unpaid debt in the central Brazilian state of Tocantins in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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