{"id":2024974,"date":"2023-09-07T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spotted-8-times-manhunt-for-escaped-pennsylvania-prisoner-intensifies\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:44:47","slug":"spotted-8-times-manhunt-for-escaped-pennsylvania-prisoner-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spotted-8-times-manhunt-for-escaped-pennsylvania-prisoner-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped Pennsylvania prisoner sparks intense manhunt, spotted 8 times."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspotted-8-times-manhunt-for-escaped-pennsylvania-prisoner-intensifies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024974&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>Convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante, the illegal immigrant from Brazil who escaped on Aug. 31 from Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania, is still missing but he has been potentially spotted\u2064 eight times, officials said in a Sept. 7 press \u2063conference.<\/p>\n<p>The latest possible sighting was Thursday, Sept. 7, \u200bnear\u200d the popular horticulture tourist attraction Longwood Gardens. Law enforcement has focused its search \u2062on an area roughly 8 to 10\u200b square miles\u2062 in Chester\u2063 County and has intensified searching near the latest sighting.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cavalcante, 34, was sentenced to life\u2063 in prison for the Aug. 16, 2021, stabbing murder of his\u2062 former girlfriend, 33-year-old Deborah Brand\u00e3o,\u200c in front of her two\u2064 young children. Mr. Cavalcante is also wanted in Brazil for a \u20642017 homicide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/escaped-pennsylvania-inmate-spotted-on-residential-surveillance-near-prison-5485506\">Escaped Pennsylvania Inmate Spotted on \u2062Residential Surveillance Near Prison<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/2\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/escaped-pennsylvania-inmate-spotted-on-residential-surveillance-near-prison-5485506\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/authorities-expand-search-area-for-killer-who-escaped-pennsylvania-prison-after-latest-sighting-5486430\">Authorities Expand Search Area for Killer Who Escaped Pennsylvania \u2063Prison After\u2063 Latest Sighting<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/5\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/authorities-expand-search-area-for-killer-who-escaped-pennsylvania-prison-after-latest-sighting-5486430\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Officials say\u200d Mr. Cavalcante speaks Portuguese and some Spanish but very \u2063little English.<\/p>\n<p>Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan,\u200d who prosecuted Mr. Cavalcante\u200b in the homicide \u200dcase, said Ms. Brand\u00e3o\u2019s family is terrified that Mr. Cavalcante is\u200c not in custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are terrified. They haven&#8217;t left their home.\u2063 They&#8217;re barricaded inside and \u200dvery\u2064 concerned about their safety,\u201d Ms. Ryan said during the press conference. \u201cWe do have police detail around them 24 \u2064hours a day, but\u2063 I know they&#8217;re very, very worried.\u201d\u200d She said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode post-related-videos\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n    <strong>Mr. Cavalcante will not be returned to Chester County Prison once found. He\u200b will go to a state correctional facility. \u2063He had been in county\u200d prison awaiting a state prison assignment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Hundreds \u2064Searching<\/h2>\n<p>    \u200b   The weather in Pennsylvania has\u2062 been hotter than usual \u200dand the longer Mr. Cavalcante is \u200bthe subject of a massive manhunt, the \u200cmore desperate he \u2063will become, Lt. Col. George Bivens of the \u2064Pennsylvania State Police said.\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI believe he\u200c has always been very dangerous \u200cand I&#8217;ve\u200c said that from the start,\u201d Lt. Col.\u200d Bivens said. \u201cHe&#8217;s already murdered two people, one in \u2063Brazil and one\u200c here, and in a very brutal manner. He&#8217;s a very dangerous\u200c individual,\u200b and he remains so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lt.\u2064 Col. Bivens said Mr. Cavalcante has some family \u200cand associates in the area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    \u2064    \u201cIt is a\u200b very intensive search involving hundreds\u200b of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">law enforcement<\/a> officers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/red-wave-12-republican-nationwide-wins-in-tuesdays-election\/\" title=\"Red Wave: 12 Republican Nationwide Wins in Tuesday\u2019s Election\">involving state<\/a>\u200d of the art \u200dtechnology, but we are \u2062not sitting in a room someplace waiting for\u200c technology to solve this,\u201d Lt. Col. Bivens said. \u201cOur people are out there, hundreds of them last night, pushing through the\u2064 woods, holding perimeters, checking on possible sightings, but it is very hot and humid weather and they&#8217;re working in that around the clock in order to keep the pressure on.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Escape Caught \u2064on Video<\/h2>\n<p>    Mr. Cavalcante escaped \u200bfrom \u200can exterior hallway off the prison exercise \u200dyard where other inmates were playing\u200c a game of basketball. Putting his\u200d hands on one wall and his feet on the other side of the hallway wall, Mr. \u2064Cavalcante\u200b can be seen\u200d in a prison surveillance video climbing up the walls and disappearing\u200b to the roof.\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is the same way another \u2062inmate, Igor Bolte, escaped on May 19. That\u200c inmate was seen by a guard in a tower who\u200d was tasked with watching the\u200c exercise yard. Mr. Bolte was captured in five \u2064minutes, but Mr. Cavalcante was not seen escaping. \u200bHe was noticed missing when inmates want back inside and were counted, Howard Holland, acting warden of \u2063the Chester County Prison, said \u2062in \u200cone of the \u2062two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spotted-8-times-manhunt-for-escaped-pennsylvania-prisoner-intensifies\/\" title=\"Escaped Pennsylvania prisoner sparks intense manhunt, spotted 8 times.\">press conferences \u2062officials held<\/a> about the matter on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    \u2064   The former \u200bwarden, Ronald M. Phillips,\u200b retired on\u2064 Aug. 30, \u2062one day before\u2063 Mr. Cavalcante\u2019s escape.\u200d Prior to his \u200cretirement, Mr. Phillips \u2063had been placed on administrative leave for an unknown reason.<br \/>\n \u200c\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante, an illegal immigrant from Brazil, remains missing after escaping Chester County Prison. Officials reported eight potential sightings, with the most recent near Longwood Gardens. 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