Jairo Lerma and several of his relatives placed a wooden cross in the dry grass along a Texas highway where his parents, on their way from Georgia to Mexico, died suddenly in a fiery crash with an oncoming car that was carrying migrants and fleeing a sheriff’s deputy. Shortly before the crash on Nov. 8, […]
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A man suspected of fatally shooting three women and a 13-year-old girl in Memphis was found dead early Sunday with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the police said, ending an hourslong manhunt. The police said that the man, Mavis Christian Jr., 52, was involved in shootings at three locations on Saturday, in […]
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Kaitlin Armstrong was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday in the death of Moriah Wilson, a professional cyclist who had briefly dated Ms. Armstrong’s boyfriend and was killed while visiting Austin, Texas, for a bike race 18 months ago. State District Judge Brenda Kennedy said that the jury delivered the guilty verdict against Ms. […]
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As residents across Maine sat riveted to their TVs on Oct. 27, waiting anxiously for updates on the manhunt for a gunman who had killed 18 people, state officials opened their news briefing with a stern directive for the cameras in the room. “For the consideration of the four Deaf victims and their families, we […]
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The gunman who fled after killing 18 people and injuring 13 others at a bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, last month was most likely alive during much of the sprawling two-day manhunt that had forced thousands of residents throughout the region to remain in their homes. The assailant, Robert R. Card II, […]
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In Anthony Mann’s 1950 western “Winchester ’73,” a rare and much-desired Winchester rifle brings misery and death to the unlucky souls who manage to bring it into their possession. In the West as brought to you by Mann — and his star, a troubled and morally ambiguous Jimmy Stewart — the gun isn’t a symbol […]
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Indeed, search technology has made significant advances since the 1990s, when Mr. Rudolph was at large. Thermal imaging like that used to locate Mr. Cavalcante can now distinguish between people and animals. Cellphones produce vital tracking data, as long as they are not discarded But even with night-vision cameras, drones and other modern tools, the […]
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The authorities on Thursday recaptured a murder suspect who the police say escaped from a Washington, D.C., hospital nearly two months ago by assaulting an officer and fleeing, with a handcuff dangling from one arm. The suspect, Christopher Haynes, 30, was caught “without incident” about 10:30 a.m. Thursday by a fugitive task force led by […]
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The Nashville police chief’s estranged son, who was recently identified as a suspect in the shooting of two police officers outside a Dollar General store in La Vergne, Tenn., was found dead on Tuesday night, officials said. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement late Tuesday that John Drake Jr. had died in […]
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The man who has long been linked to the 2005 overseas disappearance of the American teenager Natalee Holloway pleaded guilty in federal court in Alabama on Wednesday to charges that he tried to extort Ms. Holloway’s mother, prosecutors said. According to the plea agreement, Joran van der Sloot, a 36-year-old Dutchman, agreed to provide “full, […]
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Four men, including one accused of killing a woman who was found strangled, escaped from a jail in central Georgia early on Monday, prompting law enforcement officials to warn the public and begin a search that involved several agencies. The inmates were considered dangerous, officials said. Sheriff David Davis of Bibb County said at a […]
Read MoreThe Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday that they were seeking the arrest of Juan Guaidó, the former opposition leader who is in exile in the United States. Attorney General Tarek William Saab said Venezuela’s Public Ministry had requested a warrant for Mr. Guaidó’s arrest. He said Mr. Guaidó had used the resources of the state-owned […]
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The Baltimore Police Department said that the suspect in the death of a young tech entrepreneur in Baltimore had been arrested, ending a dayslong manhunt. The department said early Thursday that it would make an announcement at 11 a.m. about Jason Billingsley, 32, who was identified on Tuesday as a suspect in the killing of […]
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The founder and chief executive of a Baltimore tech start-up who was acclaimed as a rising entrepreneur in the city was found dead on Monday, the police said, prompting a manhunt on Tuesday for a suspect considered to be armed and dangerous. The entrepreneur, Pava LaPere, 26, who founded EcoMap Technologies, a company that curates […]
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Bundles of cash arriving on flights from Russia via Armenia provided an early sign of mischief in a tiny Eastern European enclave. Then came a wave of noisy street demonstrations featuring destitute pensioners paid to chant for the removal of their country’s pro-Western president. But events in that enclave, Gagauzia, in the Republic of Moldova, […]
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Bundles of cash arriving on flights from Russia via Armenia provided an early sign of mischief in a tiny Eastern European enclave. Then came a wave of noisy street demonstrations featuring destitute pensioners paid to chant for the removal of their country’s pro-Western president. But events in that enclave, Gagauzia, in the Republic of Moldova, […]
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A 29-year-old man was arrested early Monday morning in the ambush-style killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy over the weekend, the authorities announced hours after engaging in a standoff at a Southern California home. The deputy, Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30, who was on duty and in uniform, was shot on Saturday night when his […]
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They thought they had him cornered. Danelo Cavalcante, facing life in prison for murder, had shimmied his way out of the Chester County jail on Aug. 31 and was on the run in exurbs of eastern Pennsylvania. Local and state police set up a perimeter around the expanse where they suspected Mr. Cavalcante was hiding […]
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Ovidio Guzmán López, one of four sons of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord best known as El Chapo, was extradited to Chicago on Friday to face trial on a sprawling set of federal drug charges, according to his lawyer and American officials. The extradition came a little more than nine months after Mr. […]
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It took the authorities in Pennsylvania 13 days to track down the convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante after he escaped from a county jail last month. It took just a few hours after his capture on Wednesday for officials to deliver him to the prison that will be his home for the foreseeable future. On Thursday, […]
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He tried to flee then, too, but was arrested the next day in Virginia and brought back to Pennsylvania to stand trial. In August, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Nine days later, he escaped. In his brief attempt to flee before his arrest in 2021, Mr. Cavalcante had been helped by […]
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Yenchun Chen, a Queens man accused of trying to sell fentanyl and crystal methamphetamine to an undercover officer, was being held at Rikers Island last month when he complained about chest pains, according to authorities. He spent several days at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Midtown Manhattan, where he was guarded by two Department of […]
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Danelo Cavalcante, the Pennsylvania prison escapee, has now been roaming wooded areas and small suburban towns for nearly two weeks, presumably with no shelter and little to eat or drink, as he flees the hundreds of police officers desperately searching for him. Back home in rural Brazil, his mother, Iracema Cavalcante, sees a son whose […]
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The fugitive who has eluded the authorities in Pennsylvania for nearly two weeks after breaking out of jail is now armed, having stolen a rifle from a house, officials said on Tuesday. Law enforcement officers, who are now focusing their search on an area about 30 miles north of the jail, responded to a reported […]
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For more than a week, Danelo Cavalcante, a Brazilian national who was convicted of murder in suburban Philadelphia and then escaped from prison, has eluded an intense manhunt that has grown to hundreds of law enforcement officers. The pursuit continued on Monday after a weekend in which Mr. Cavalcante, who is also wanted in Brazil […]
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Danelo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison more than 10 days ago, was spotted again on Monday night, the authorities said. James Mckee, a Pennsylvania State Police trooper, confirmed the sighting in a brief telephone interview on Monday night. He said he could not confirm any other details. Mr. Cavalcante, 34, […]
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It was just after midnight on a Saturday. A light rain was starting to fall in the mostly empty town square by the church. Evaldo Alves Feitosa was flipping his last burger of the night when he heard the gunshots outside his snack stand. “I thought it was a firecracker from a party at the […]
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At an unknown time and at an unknown location, Danelo Souza Cavalcante, a 34-year-old citizen of Brazil, entered the United States unlawfully — without being inspected or admitted by a U.S. immigration official, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Sometime after that, in April 2021, prosecutors said he fatally stabbed his Brazilian girlfriend in […]
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Three days after a former British Army soldier facing terrorism charges engineered an audacious escape from a London prison, setting off an intense nationwide manhunt, he was captured by the police on Saturday morning only a few miles way. The Metropolitan Police Service said the fugitive, Daniel Abed Khalife, was apprehended just before 11 a.m. […]
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The manhunt for an escaped fugitive in the Philadelphia suburbs appeared to escalate on Friday afternoon as attention focused on the area around a sprawling botanical garden where the escapee had been seen twice in recent days. The number of officers searching for Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from the Chester County Prison on Aug. 31, […]
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Here are some other notable escapes from recent history. 1962 Escape from Alcatraz More than 60 years ago, three inmates — Frank Lee Morris and the brothers Clarence and John Anglin — escaped from Alcatraz, the forbidding maximum security prison situated on an island in San Francisco Bay. Known as “the Rock,” Alcatraz was thought […]
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