Police Now Searching Homes Near Prison for Escaped Murderers
Now in its fifth day, the manhunt for escaped convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat has shifted back to Dannemora, the upstate New York town that houses the Clinton Correctional Facility.
Law enforcement agents are hoping to retrace their steps in the town after spending most of yesterday searching the area surrounding Willsboro, N.Y., where the fugitives were reportedly spotted running into the woods.
“Law enforcement will be searching homes in the village of Dannemora on Wednesday. These searches are not the result of a new lead, law enforcement are retracing steps made early in the investigation. Residents will notice an increased police presence in the area,” troopers leading the search said in a statement released Wednesday morning.
Houses, sheds, garages: officers checking enclosures in Dannemora... pic.twitter.com/ZUsuOOGNV5
June 10, 2015
Police even going inside homes pic.twitter.com/LS23Dj7yai
June 10, 2015
Officers still poised along Kennedy Road, waiting. Chopper continues to hover over wooded area #PrisonBreakNY pic.twitter.com/3WFOEKKpKe
June 10, 2015
The convicts escaped from Clinton Correctional sometime Friday night. Sweat was serving to life without parole for fatally shooting a sheriff’s deputy 22 times in 2002. Matt has murdered at least two people, including a 75-year-old New Yorker who he dismembered in 1997, and was serving a 25-year sentence.