Danelo Cavalcante was pictured beaten and bruised in his photos hours after the fugitive killer was captured by cops in Pennsylvania.
The heroic K-9 officer who helped take him down, Yoda, has also been identified. The four-year-old dog is a Belgian Malinois who serves in the U.S. Border Patrol’s BORTAC K9 unit, which was called in to assist in the manhunt.
Cavalcante, 34, was cornered by about 25 officers in the woods near South Coventry Township Wednesday morning after authorities used thermal imaging from a plane to pinpoint his possible location the night before.
The escaped convict was seen wearing a hospital gown and shackles hours after being taken into custody following a two-week manhunt that terrorized the Pennsylvania community.
Danelo Cavalcante was photographed beaten and bruised hours after the fleeing killer was captured by cops.
The heroic K-9 officer who helped take him down, Yoda, has also been identified
Yoda, who was sent after the killer after evading human authorities for two weeks, managed to bite Cavalcante. The fugitive was treated for his injury at the scene of his capture.
The Brazil native was serving a life sentence for brutally killing his ex-girlfriend in front of her two children when he escaped from the Chester County Jail, 30 miles west of Philadelphia, on August 31.
The killer’s capture, which lasted about five minutes, brings relief to anxious residents of southeastern Pennsylvania who endured sleepless nights as he hid in the woods, broke into suburban homes and stole food, changed his appearance and fled under fire with a rifle. d stolen from a garage.
A plane spotted a heat source Tuesday evening, but authorities had to delay the operation after a storm arrived, with a ground crew remaining in the area overnight.
After his capture, Cavalcante was taken to a nearby state police barracks in an armored vehicle surrounded by a convoy of a dozen vehicles with lights flashing and sirens blaring as he drove down the highway . Two police helicopters followed.
Cavalcante was arraigned at the Avondale Barracks on a charge of escape, according to Judge Matthew Seavey’s office. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for September 27. In the meantime, he was taken to a state prison to continue serving the life sentence he received last month for the murder of his ex-girlfriend.
In a statement, Chester County Commissioners told DailyMail.com: “Cavalcante’s capture brings an end to the nightmare of the past two weeks, and we thank all law enforcement officials at the regional, state and federal levels which were present regardless of weather conditions. all day and night – as well as everyone at the Incident Command Center, our County Department of Emergency Services and the County Sheriff’s Office – for their tremendous efforts.
Escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante has been captured, police announced Wednesday morning.
Escaped convict Danelo Cavalcante was seen in a hospital gown and shackled hours after his arrest Wednesday.
Cavalcante, 34, was cornered by about 25 police officers in a wooded area near South Coventry Township.
Authorities released police dog Yoda to capture the killer. He was bitten and treated at the scene for his injury.
“Chester County Jail officials have made immediate changes to strengthen security at the jail, have brought in security contractors to make permanent modifications to exercise classes and are in the process of reviewing and – if necessary – to modify procedures both for security measures and communication with residents who live near the prison.
The killer was last seen Monday evening in the garage of a house in East Nantmeal, 20 miles from the search area that police had spent days combing last week. The homeowner was at his home and shot him several times, but police said there was no evidence to suggest the convict was hit.
This is the first reported sighting since Saturday, when Cavalcante stole a van and attempted to contact former co-workers before dumping the vehicle in a field.
The police initially focused their searches in the area near the prison, where he had been spotted several times last week. But on Saturday, a clean-shaven Cavalcante was spotted outside a former co-worker’s house on a Ring doorbell camera in East Pikeland Township, before being spotted outside another ex-coworker’s house in the neighboring town of Phoenixville.
Law enforcement rallies as search for escaped convict Danelo Cavalcante continues Tuesday
On Sunday, police discovered a 2020 Ford Transit van Cavalcante had been stolen from a field behind a barn in East Nantmeal Township, outside the previous search area. Cavalcante had picked it up from Baily’s Dairy based in West Chester, near the prison.
Cavalcante’s sister, who has overstay status, was arrested by ICE and began deportation proceedings after choosing not to cooperate with the investigation, police Lt. Col. said Tuesday of State George Bivens.
On August 31, Cavalcante was seen on a surveillance camera outside the prison looking at the camera before “crabbing” between two walls, scaling a fence and jumping over barbed wire during the daring escape that took place in broad daylight.
Last week, the prison guard who failed to see or report the escape was fired. Prison officials told CNN the corrections officer was an 18-year veteran of the prison.
Cavalcante is also wanted in a homicide case in his native Brazil. He managed to flee the country in 2017 after killing a student at a food truck stand.
He shot Walter Junior in Figuéiropolis, Tocantins on November 5, 2017, then managed to escape authorities at Brasilia-President Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport two months later.
Evaldo Feitosa told Brazilian media outlet G1 that he was speaking to Cavalcante and approached Junior at a table in the corner.
He remembered they were having a conversation before hearing several gunshots and someone yelling, “Dude, the guy killed his friend.”
TV Globo reported that the murder was linked to money Junior owed Calvacante.
