About 500 law enforcement officers – including members of the Pennsylvania State Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI and US Marshals – had set up a perimeter in the wooded area.ĭuring his two weeks on the run, Cavalcante was spotted inside homes, managed to slip through police search perimeters, stole a van, changed his appearance, showed up at the doorsteps of people he knew years ago and stole a firearm. The prison escape upended lives in South Coventry Township, which has a population of just over 2,600. “At this moment, me and my family need to regroup and focus on processing everything that has happened as we take care of each other.” “The past two weeks were extremely painful and terrifying, as they brought back all the feelings of losing my sister and the idea that this criminal could hurt us again,” she said in her statement, which was translated into English. Sarah said the escape and days that followed evoked the feeling of losing her sister again. The sister of Brandão, Sarah Brandão, said in a statement after Cavalcante’s capture that her family is “profoundly grateful for the support and hard work performed” by law enforcement. In addition, Cavalcante is wanted in a 2017 homicide case in Brazil, a US Marshals Service official said.

Pennsylvania State PoliceĪ timeline of the escape and manhunt for convicted Pennsylvania killer Danilo Cavalcante

“He said the law enforcement presence where he was, was immense, and he felt that he needed to leave,” Clark said.ĭanelo Cavalcante is seen in this image from surveillance footage released by Pennsylvania State Police. “He was actively avoiding apprehension, and shortly after he escaped from the prison, he had hunkered down in an area that was very, very secluded, very, very wooded and he didn’t move for the first couple days,” Clark, who did not speak with Cavalcante, said.Ĭavalcante also told law enforcement he planned to carjack someone by Thursday and drive to Canada to continue evading authorities, Clark told CNN. Matt Rourke/APĬavalcante was a “desperate man” during his nearly two weeks on the lam, surviving in part on a watermelon he found at a farm and drinking stream water, Robert Clark, supervisory deputy US marshal for Pennsylvania’s eastern district, said Wednesday.Ĭlark cited what deputy marshals told him about an interview that Cavalcante had with law enforcement officials after the fugitive’s capture. Law enforcement officers escorted Danilo Cavalcante from a Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Avondale, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, September 13.

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