How police can look for the Pennsylvania inmate

Authorities warn that Danelo Cavalcante, pictured here, is “extremely dangerous.”

AP

The manhunt for convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from a prison near Philadelphia last month, is nearing the two-week mark.

During that time, he has managed to skirt authorities’ perimeter and steal a van. He was spotted on a doorbell camera on the weekend, and on Tuesday police reported that he had now stolen a rifle.

“In the beginning, we were prepping for the short game,” supervisor of the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force for eastern Pennsylvania, Robert Clark, said on Monday. “Now, we’re planning for the long game.”

So what is that long game, and what tools do investigators have at their disposal?

“It becomes an all-hands-on-deck situation,” Major Brent Davison of the New York State Police told All Things Considered. “Pretty much all federal, state and local agencies respond to the area, and it becomes a unified command.”

Davison was involved in the 2015 manhunt for inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat, after they escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY.

“Each manhunt is a little bit different,” Davison said. “And you have different inmates in different locales, but the efforts that are used to try to locate them are somewhat similar in each case.”

The circumstances might be different, but the protocol is not

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