At a Monday news conference, Pennsylvania State Police Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens believed Cavalcante was still hiding in Chester County, Pennsylvania, but they are currently considering other counties where Cavalcante may be hiding out. Law enforcement officials categorized Danelo Cavalcante as extremely dangerous, and are warning all citizens in Pennsylvania to proceed with caution. It is now known that Cavalcante had stolen a 2020 Ford Transit van outside the search perimeter and drove it 25 miles north to a former colleague's house in search of support. It is also known that Danelo Cavalcante was last seen clean-shaven and wearing a green hooded sweatshirt with a dark baseball hat.
34-year-old Danelo Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison in Pocopson Township on the morning of Thursday, August 31. According to ABC News, "Cavalcante was convicted of first-degree murder on Aug. 16 for fatally stabbing his former girlfriend 38 times in front of her two young children in 2021". Cavalcante was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of 33-year-old Deborah Brandao, his former girlfriend.
It still isn't clear if this state-wide search will soon become a nation-wide search at the federal level. Currently, under U.S. laws, a manhunt that is kept within state borders is still dealt with by a state’s government. When a wanted fugitive crosses the state border, this manhunt now becomes a federal matter involving federal officials. Though at this rate, it seems as if this manhunt for Cavalcante will soon become a federal matter as we are seeing him easily travel out of a highly supervised search perimeter.
Pennsylvanian law enforcement are currently offering a $25,000 reward to anyone who is able to provide information that can lead police to Cavalcante’s arrest.
Carissa H.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/escaped-convict-danelo-cavalcante-spotted-altered-appearance-pennsylvania/story?id=103064127
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/11/us/danelo-cavalcante-inmate-search-pennsylvania-monday/index.html
https://abcnews.go.com/US/convicted-murderer-escapes-pennsylvania-prison/story?id=102842159
2 comments:
I recently saw an update about this case - he got caught by police dogs and put into a maximum-security prison. Thank goodness he did get caught - his girlfriend's family deserves justice. The crime he committed is so incredibly disgusting. Her children, too, were put through one of the most confusing and traumatizing things that a child could ever be put through. I hope that they are given all the support that they need to recover and live a good life - what they are being put through is so unfair and they're still so young.
Reading this after there is a confirmed capture of the convict is very confusing and worrying. On one hand, it is great that the convict was brought to justice for the horror he brought to his girlfriend and her family, and he undoubtably deserves life in prison if not worse. On the other hand, it is insane to me that this even occurred in the first place. For his escape to have been prolonged, there had to have been at least some other support for him; the former colleague must have sheltered him, at least temporarily. He likely also had other friends that abetted him in evading law enforcement. For someone this awful to have been sheltered signals a deeper problem in this country of a cavalier attitude towards such brutal violence towards women.
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