Brazilian fugitive Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped on August 31 this year by scaling the walls of a Pennsylvania prison, “put Chester County on edge” and captured American attention for thirteen long days. police operation of pure giddiness.

Video cameras had captured his initially bearded face as he hung out on the street; Then they caught him with his hairless face, and the citizens were alerted to his movements. “Don’t go to him if you see him,” was the order.

The police have mobilized more than 400 officers, EFE said. They used dogs and drones to locate it.

On the morning of September 13, 2023, “the fugitive was discovered again, who had probably hidden in the bushes for several hours and tried to escape by crawling, until a police dog caught him,” EFE reported.

That agency said “the latest arrest operation began Tuesday evening after the burglar alarm at a home near Prizer Road allowed officers to narrow the search area.”

Around 8 a.m. on the morning of the 13th of this month, police celebrated that they had managed to capture him “during an operation in which not a single bullet was fired.”

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A “desperate” Danelo Cavalcante

On Thursday the 14th, from what was reported on Telemundo 62, it was learned that Cavalcante, who killed his ex-girlfriend in 2021, made sure not to take a step wrong in the past two weeks.

He walked along the tree line

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“He managed to evade the human hunt in his path, eating watermelon and hiding the feces so that officers would not know where he spent the night and would move strategically at night,” the head of federal marshals, Rob Clark, told NBC News, Telemundo 62 reported.

Lt. Col. George Bivens, however, said he did not believe Cavalcante “had an exact plan. He survived and avoided us capturing him however he could. I was desperate.”

The plan to leave the United States was thwarted by a dog

Cavalcante, while on the street, managed to obtain a weapon, “a 22 caliber rifle with a scope and a light lighter.”

Their goal was to commit an armed carjacking or “carjacking,” Telemundo 62 noted.

Danelo Cavalcante’s idea, according to Police Chief Clark, “was to commit carjacking.” to flee to Canada or Puerto Rico”.

The arrest occurred when Pennsylvania State Police and Border Patrol personnel “cornered” him.

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According to that outlet, the press and police emphasized that “Yoda, a K-9 dog, was the one who stopped him as he slid across the ground in an attempt to flee.”

Cavalcante saw himself surrounded and began to crawl through the brush with a rifle he was carrying. That’s when the dog found him and bit him on the head.

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The criminal history of the fugitive

Had he left the country and arrived in Puerto Rico, Cavalcante would have resumed a route that took him to the United States when he fled his native Brazil, marked by the death of Válter Junior Moreira dos Reis, recorded in 2017, as reported by El Universeel.

The so-called Enchanting Island was one of his connecting points as he fled Brazil en route to Pennsylvania.

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When he escaped from Chester County Prison in Pocopson Township, in southeastern Pennsylvania, in late August 2023, he was only nine days away from being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Deborah Brandao.

The recaptured man was taken to the maximum-security SCI Phoenix prison in Montgomery County, the US site said.

Cavalcante was convicted of first-degree murder on August 16, 2023 for fatally stabbing his 33-year-old ex-partner and sentenced the following week to life in prison without parole, the same newspaper El Universo stated on September 5. (JO)