NASHVILLE, Tenn.—An escaped inmate accused of sexually assaulting multiple victims in Tennessee has been captured in Florida after being on the run for over a month, authorities said. Sean Williams, 52, was arrested without incident Tuesday in Florida’s Pinellas County after being spotted and tracked down by a K-9 officer and his partner, the FBI […]
MACON, Ga.—One of four men who escaped from a central Georgia jail last week was caught Thursday, authorities said. The U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force said 29-year-old Chavis Demaryo Stokes was arrested at home in Montezuma, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the jail, around 2 p.m., the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said […]
Residents of a suburban Philadelphia community locked themselves in their houses and at least one school district canceled classes as authorities indicated they were closing in on an escaped murderer who has evaded capture in the region for nearly two weeks. Pennsylvania State Police posted on social media that the department was pursuing Danelo Souza […]
PHOENIXVILLE, Pa.—Authorities say an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago slipped out of the search area, changed his appearance, stole a dairy delivery van, abandoning it miles away and remained at large. Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police […]
Suspected terrorist Daniel Abed Khalife was arrested on Saturday morning, three days after he escaped from prison, the Metropolitan Police said. Mr. Khalife, 21, a former army network engineer, had escaped from HMP Wandsworth in south London on Wednesday morning. The police believe he pulled off the prison break by strapping himself under a food delivery […]
WEST CHESTER, Pa.—A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire, and jumping from a roof in a breakout that wasn’t detected by guards for a full hour, authorities said Wednesday as the killer eluded a widening manhunt for a seventh day. The timeline […]
WEST CHESTER, Pa.—A recently convicted murderer who’s been on the run for days after escaping a suburban Philadelphia prison was spotted shortly after midnight Saturday by residential security cameras in an area not far from the prison, authorities said. Authorities haven’t disclosed the circumstances of how Danelo Cavalcante, 34, managed to escape Thursday morning from […]
This episode focuses on the pursuit of freedom. Dmitriy Chebotarev of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, Calif., discusses the need for Democrats and Republicans to find a balance in government on key issues like human trafficking and the supply chain for critical components. Then, Lithuanian-born singer/songwriter Simona Smirnova shares both her music and her […]
LAHAINA, Hawaii—The smoke was starting to blot out the sun. Winds were howling, and heat bore down as flames licked the trees on the horizon. The power had been out all day, so Mike Cicchino thought he’d drive to the hardware store for a generator. He turned off his street, and in an instant, his […]
PORTLAND, Ore.—A man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locked her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape, the FBI said Wednesday. Negasi Zuberi, 29, faces federal charges that include […]
WARREN, Pa.—Authorities were searching Saturday for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who escaped from a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets, officials said. Michael Burham was last seen wearing a blue denim coat from the jail, white and orange pants, and orange shoes, Warren police said Friday. Mr. Burham was being […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Authorities say they’ve foiled an elderly businessman’s plan to escape a Florida jail and return to France where he had previously fled in an attempt to avoid child pornography charges. A tip from outside the jail sparked a two-month investigation of John Manchec, 78, and people he had enlisted in his escape plan, […]
PHILADELPHIA—There were no corrections officers assigned specifically to watch the housing unit of a Philadelphia prison when two inmates escaped Sunday night, and no armed perimeter guards were on duty as the men broke through the prison’s fence, a correctional officers union official told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Days later, authorities are still searching […]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Two inmates in a Virginia jail used primitively made tools to create a hole in the wall of their cell and escape, only to be found hours later at an IHOP restaurant nearby, a sheriff said. Authorities discovered the two men, ages 37 and 43, missing from their cell in the Newport News […]
ST. LOUIS—St. Louis Zoo officials say they are working to find a way to keep an Andean bear named Ben inside his enclosure after he escaped Thursday for the second time this month. The bear was outside for less than an hour and was found only about 100 feet away from his habitat, zoo officials […]
The Great Escape always brings prisoner-of-war Steve McQueen to mind, but perhaps the real masters of breaking out are five lions who absconded from their enclosure at a Sydney zoo last month. Taronga Zoo said on Thursday that new CCTV footage reveals how four cubs and an adult male escaped their enclosure by squeezing beneath […]
