Danelo Cavalcante, Convicted Murderer, Escapes From Pennsylvania Prison

Police have been looking early Friday for a Brazilian man they warned was “extraordinarily harmful” after he escaped from a jail close to Philadelphia, days after he was sentenced to life in jail for the deadly stabbing of his former girlfriend.

The inmate, Danelo Cavalcante, escaped from the Chester County Jail on Thursday morning, the native district lawyer’s workplace said on X, previously often called Twitter.

The jail’s performing warden, Howard Holland, declined to remark at a Thursday news conference on how or why the escape had occurred, saying solely that it was underneath investigation.

Deb Ryan, the Chester County district lawyer, stated on the information convention that Mr. Cavalcante had been final seen strolling southbound within the county’s Pocopson Township on Thursday morning carrying a white T-shirt, grey shorts and white sneakers.

Her workplace stated the search prolonged to all of Chester County and that residents inside a six-mile radius of the jail had been notified of the escape. The county lies simply west of Philadelphia.

“For those who see him, don’t strategy him,” Ms. Ryan stated. “We’re asking you please to contact 911. He’s thought of extraordinarily harmful.”

Ms. Ryan’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. Neither did the Pennsylvania State Police. Officers at Chester County Jail couldn’t be reached for remark in a single day.

Mr. Cavalcante, 34, is a Brazilian nationwide who is needed for murder in Brazil, america Marshals Service said in a notice.

Final week, Mr. Cavalcante was sentenced to life in jail with out parole after being convicted of first-degree homicide. The district lawyer’s workplace has stated that in April 2021, he stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Deborah Brandao, to loss of life in entrance of her kids, ages 4 and seven. Mr. Cavalcante, who was dwelling in Royersford, Pa., on the time, fled the homicide scene and was arrested hours later in Virginia.

Earlier than the assault, Ms. Brandao had discovered of Mr. Cavalcante’s open warrant for homicide in Brazil and threatened to inform the police, in line with the district lawyer’s workplace. “Detectives decided that this was the motive for the homicide,” the workplace said in a Facebook post final week.

Mr. Cavalcante had beforehand assaulted and threatened to kill Ms. Brandao, the workplace said on Thursday. It stated he’s 5 ft tall and speaks Portuguese and Spanish.

Mr. Cavalcante is a former gang member who is needed in Brazil for the 2017 homicide of a person who owed him cash, Ms. Ryan, the Chester County District Legal professional, informed the Media Information Group, in line with a report on Thursday in one of many firm’s newspapers, Daily Local News.

The report stated Mr. Cavalcante had been held on the Chester County Jail since his arrest two years in the past. It stated he was being held there for an extra 30 days after his sentencing — earlier than a deliberate switch to the state jail system — whereas he and his legal professionals determined whether or not to attraction his conviction.

Each day Native Information reported in early August that Mr. Holland, the jail’s performing warden, had taken over after the common warden was positioned on administrative depart. The jail “continues to grapple with some degree of vacancies amongst correctional workers,” the newspaper’s report stated.

The jail opened in 1959, with a mixture of maximum-security and medium-security cells, and was expanded within the Nineteen Eighties, according to its website. It stated in a discover on Thursday that each one household visits had been suspended.