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On 09 Sep 2023, George Smith <[email protected]> posted some news:udji7e$f1u4$[email protected]:

The media keeps running pictures of women as authoritative law
enforcement figures. Women fail in most positions of leadership.

Authorities searched Monday for escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante
who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania
prison a week and a half ago after he apparently slipped through a
search perimeter, changed his appearance, stole a dairy delivery van and contacted acquaintances.

Chester County residents were asked to be on the lookout, check their
security cameras and keep vehicles and homes locked as the search for Cavalcante continued, state police said on social media Monday morning.

Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police said Sunday that Cavalcante stole the unlocked van, which had the keys inside, sometime
Saturday night. The van had been parked at a dairy farm about
three-quarters of a mile (1.2 kilometers) from the northern perimeter of
the search area where hundreds of law enforcement officers had been
looking for him.

Bivens vowed to �aggressively continue� the search and said he is
confident the fugitive will be captured.

He declined to say how he thought Cavalcante slipped through the
perimeter, but said it had weaknesses, such as underground tunnels and
huge drainage ditches, and that no perimeter is 100% secure and no
operation goes according to plan.

�That happens in investigations, it happens in manhunts, it happens in
all kinds of things,� said Bivens, who also helped guide a 48-day search
for cop-killer Eric Frein in 2014. "That�s why if you�re smart, you're
planning contingencies and you�re ready to adapt to whatever happens.
This is a minor setback. We�ll get him. It�s a matter of time.�

Cavalcante's sister was arrested by immigration authorities, Bivens
said. The matter involved "immigration issues," he said, but declined to provide specifics, including the date of the arrest. U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to an inquiry about
it Monday.

Bivens said state police are authorized to use deadly force if
Cavalcante isn�t actively surrendering.

Other agencies involved in the search may have their own rules, he
noted.

Several law enforcement agencies put more stringent requirements in
place for preauthorization of different levels of force in the wake of
national protests and calls for policing reforms after the killing of
George Floyd by police.

The Pennsylvania State Police regulations republished in July outline
specific scenarios where deadly force is justified including to prevent
the escape of someone who has committed a violent felony such as murder
and who could pose a threat to the community.

By preauthorizing the use of deadly force for troopers if Cavalcante
does not surrender, state police officials are eliminating a potential
delay.

Some schools in the region planned to hold outdoor activities inside.
Owen J. Roberts School District in Pottstown announced that there would
also be an increased security presence at its schools on Monday,
including local law enforcement officers.

Baily�s Dairy said on its Facebook page that the delivery van was stolen between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday �while we were still here working.�
Police contacted them after 5 a.m. with news of the theft.

In the meantime Cavalcante, 34, traveled more than 20 miles (30
kilometers) northeast to East Pikeland Township and Phoenixville.
Shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday he went to an East Pikeland Township
home of a person he had worked with several years ago and asked to meet
with him, police said.

The homeowner, who was at dinner with his family, spoke with Cavalcante
but did not respond to his request to meet. He called police after
returning home and reviewing his doorbell video.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, police said, Cavalcante went to the Phoenixville area home of another former work associate, who wasn't
home, police said. An investigation into that encounter produced
information about the van that Cavalcante stole, Bivens said.

Doorbell video images showed Cavalcante to be now clean-shaven and
wearing a bright green hooded sweatshirt, police said. The stolen van
was found at 10:40 a.m. Sunday in a field behind a barn in East Nantmeal Township, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) west of Phoenixville.

Bivens said he believed Cavalcante abandoned the vehicle at least in
part because it was low on fuel.

Cavalcante, 34, escaped from the Chester County Prison while awaiting
transfer to state prison on Aug. 31 after being sentenced to life for
fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in 2021. Prosecutors say he wanted to
stop her from telling police that he�s wanted in a killing in his home
country of Brazil.

To escape, Cavalcante scaled a wall by crab-walking up from the
recreation yard, climbed over razor wire, ran across a roof and jumped
to the ground. His escape went undetected for more than an hour until
guards took a headcount. The tower guard on duty was fired, officials
say.

Authorities had tracked him to an area around the Longwood Gardens
botanical park, where police had about 400 personnel, including tactical
teams, tracking dogs, and officers on horseback as well as aircraft.

Cavalcante apparently slipped through a perimeter.

Authorities describes Cavalcante as extremely dangerous. Police are
asking anyone with information to call 911. A $20,000 reward is being
offered for information leading to his capture.

In Brazil, prosecutors in Tocantins state say Cavalcante is accused of
�double qualified homicide� in the 2017 slaying of V�lter J�nior Moreira
dos Reis in Figueir�polis, which they allege was over a debt the victim
owed him in connection with repair of a vehicle.

https://news.yahoo.com/escaped-murderer-slips-search-area-110914203.html

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