At least 400 officers, some working 12-hour days, are searching for one dangerous escaped convict — who continues to elude them despite multiple sightings in Pennsylvania.
It’s been 10 days since convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante shimmied up a wall at the Chester County Prison and scurried to freedom.
There have been nearly a dozen confirmed sightings — including two on Friday — in Chester County since the 34-year-old Brazilian national’s Aug. 31 escape, and officials have assigned more cops to the manhunt, CNN reported Saturday.
“We pulled more people in through the night last night,” Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said Friday, adding that the state police and other agencies have sent reinforcements.
“We have got numerous tactical teams that are out doing searches.”
State police described Cavalcante as extremely dangerous.
Danelo Cavalcante, a 34-year-old Brazilian man, had been recently sentence to life in prison without parole for murdering his former girlfriend. Pennsylvania State Police Depart/AFP via Getty Images
Pennsylvania state police stand guard on the perimeter of a search zone in Kennett Square while searching for escaped convict Danelo Cavalcante. Getty Images
Police are bringing in more officers to hunt for the escaped killer. Facebook/Chester County District AttorneyCavalcante was recently sentenced to life in prison without parole for fatally stabbing 33-year-old Deborah Brandao, his former girlfriend, while her 7-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son were present in 2021.
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Convicted killer and escaped fugitive Danelo Cavalcante was captured when a K9 officer sniffed him out in the Pennsylvania woods
Cavalcante, 34, infamously crab-walked up two walls at Chester County Prison to escape Aug. 31.
The 5-foot-tall killer was originally behind bars in the US for fatally stabbing his girlfriend in 2021.
Previously, in November 2017, Cavalcante allegedly confronted a friend in the middle of town in Brazil over money and gunned him down.
He eventually made his way to the US using a fake identity, slaying his partner four years later in front of her young son and daughter.
A week after being sentenced to life in August, Cavalcante escaped.
Police said the diminutive perp was “armed and extremely dangerous” after he was spotted stealing a rifle out of a Pennsylvania homeowner’s garage.
He was awaiting transfer to a state facility when he escaped Chester County Prison last week by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof into a less-secure area to elude guards.
A tower guard who “did not see” or report the killer’s escape nine days ago was fired Thursday. The guard, an 18-year veteran of the prison, has not yet been identified.
