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Danelo Cavalcante: Schools Close For 2nd Day, Report Details How Killer May Have Escaped Danelo Cavalcante: Schools Close For 2nd Day, Report Details How Killer May Have Escaped
Danelo Cavalcante: Schools Close For 2nd Day, Report Details How Killer May Have Escaped Chester County schools are closed for the second day in a row as the search for killer fugitive Danelo Cavalcante continues. Both the Kennett Consolidated School District and Unionville-Chadds Ford School District will remain closed Wednesday, Sept. 6, more than a day after the 34-year-old convicted murderer was captured on a trail camera nearby. Citing a criminal complaint, 6abc says Cavalcante may have escaped the same way as Igor Bolte, another inmate in the county prison, did back in May. Bolte is believed to have scaled the wall near the exercise yard before climbing an exposed beam u…

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by Mac Bullock & Cecilia Levine
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Danelo Cavalcante's Mom Aids Police As Search Narrows Danelo Cavalcante's Mom Aids Police As Search Narrows
Danelo Cavalcante's Mom Aids Police As Search Narrows Police are narrowing down their search for escaped killer Danelo Cavalcante to an area of Pocopson Township — and they've got his mom on their side. George Bivens, a lieutenant colonel with the Pennsylvania State Police, said at a press conference on Labor Day that 34-year-old Cavalcante's mom recorded a message to him in Spanish, which is being broadcast from helicopters and law enforcement vehicles that are assisting in the search. There have been four credible sightings of 34-year-old Cavalcante in a confined area of the township since his escape from the Chester County Prison on Thursd…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police Are Knocking On Doors Amid Massive Search For Escaped Killer Danelo Cavalcante Police Are Knocking On Doors Amid Massive Search For Escaped Killer Danelo Cavalcante
Police Are Knocking On Doors Amid Massive Search For Escaped Killer Danelo Cavalcante The search for 34-year-old escaped killer Danelo Cavalcante remains under way in Chester County. Police were knocking on doors around Pocopson Township Sunday, Sept. 3, as there have been sightings of the convicted murderer in the area over the weekend, the Chester County District Attorney's Office said. Hundreds of U.S. Marshals agents, SWAT teams, local, state, and other federal agencies have been searching the area in the days after Cavalcante slipped by guards at the Chester County prison. Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Cavalcante is asked to call 9-1-1 immediately.…

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by Cecilia Levine
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WANTED! Ex-GF Murderer Serving Life Sentence Escapes PA Prison WANTED! Ex-GF Murderer Serving Life Sentence Escapes PA Prison
Wanted! Ex-GF Murderer Serving Life Sentence Escapes PA Prison A Royersford man convicted of his girlfriend's murder two weeks ago has escaped the jail, authorities warn.  Danelo Cavalcante, 34, snuck past security at the Chester County Prison early on Thursday, Aug. 31, said West Chester police.  The convicted killer was last seen walking on Wawaset Road in Pocopson Township around 9:40 a.m., the District Attorney's Office said. He is described as 5 feet tall and 120 pounds with brown eyes and "shaggy black curly hair." Cavalcante is a Brazilian national who speaks Spanish and Portuguese but only some English, and was last wearing a white T-shirt, g…

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by Mac Bullock
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Warrant Out For 'Jackass' Star Bam Margera Out Of PA In 2nd Run-In With Police This Month Warrant Out For 'Jackass' Star Bam Margera Out Of PA In 2nd Run-In With Police This Month
Warrant Out For 'Jackass' Star Bam Margera Out Of PA In 2nd Run-In With Police This Month "Jackass" star Brandon "Bam" Margera is being sought by Pennsylvania State Police on a warrant in connection with a physical fight that happened over the weekend. The 43-year-old stuntman and pro skateboarder apparently ran into a wooded area before police arrived at the scene of a "disturbance" around 11 a.m. Sunday, April 23, on the 400 block of Hickory Hill Road in Pocopson Township, PA State Police said. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 610-268-2022. Earlier this month, Margera was charged with public drunkenness for an incident in a California parking lot.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Chester County Barn Owner Burned Rescuing 7 Horses, 2 Others Dead In Fire Chester County Barn Owner Burned Rescuing 7 Horses, 2 Others Dead In Fire
Chester County Barn Owner Burned Rescuing 7 Horses, 2 Others Dead In Fire Support is surging for a Chester County man who was severely burned while trying to rescue his nine horses, two of who died, in a grueling fire that ravaged his historic barn over the weekend. Almost $14,000 had been raised on a Facebook fundraiser posted Monday by Nicole Henwood for her dear neighbor, Don. Funds will go towards food and rebuilding a shed and fence for the remaining horses. Fire crews arrived at the 1-block of Wawaset Road in Pocopson Township around noon Sunday to find the blaze towering through the two-story barn and approximately 6-8 acres of woods and field on fire, ac…

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by Nicole Acosta