Pennsylvania jail beefing up safety after assassin Danelo Cavalcante’s embarrassing jailbreak

The Pennsylvania jail that wily inmate Danelo Cavalcante escaped from is reportedly beefing up safety after the embarrassing jailbreak.

Chester County Jail will block entry to its roof and shift its guard posts round when inmates are figuring out within the yard, based on TMZ.

The provisional upgrades — which additionally embrace a guard stationed on the roof — are supposed to preserve different inmates from copycatting Cavalcante, the convicted assassin who fled the lockup on Aug. 31 by crab-walking up two partitions.

As soon as on the roof, the diminutive 5-foot-tall killer dove by barbed wire and ran throughout the roof in a splash to freedom, TMZ mentioned.

The brand new barrier barring the path to the roof has been positioned behind the razor wire, based on the outlet.

County officers additionally gave the inexperienced mild to a proposal that may construct a roof over the jail’s train yards, TMZ mentioned. And jail officers will evaluation surveillance procedures as effectively.

When he escaped, Cavalcante had simply been sentenced to life for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to loss of life in entrance of her two younger kids in 2021.

He spent almost two weeks on the run in southeastern Pennsylvania, consuming stolen watermelon, ingesting stream water and hiding within the woods from the a whole lot of native, state and federal officers furiously looking for him.

A few of these cops got here wildly near the killer with out even realizing it — Cavalcante instructed authorities after his apprehension that they’d almost stepped on him thrice as he hid within the dense underbrush.

“They have been about seven to eight yards away from him,” US Marshal Robert Clark instructed NewsNation final week.

“We consider he was brutally trustworthy,” Clark continued. “He described issues reminiscent of hiding his fecal matter underneath leaves in order that we couldn’t detect them.”

Cavalcante instructed police that his finish recreation was to make use of a rifle he swiped from a house owner’s storage to commandeer a automobile and flee to both Canada or Puerto Rico.

“He mentioned he was going to do this within the subsequent 24 hours,” Clark mentioned. “And that was the rationale he stored that firearm. He knew he wanted a weapon with a view to get a automobile.”

Authorities lastly nabbed the mini killer final Wednesday morning, when a Belgian Malinois Okay-9 named Yoda sank his enamel into Cavalcante and pinned him to the bottom.

It wasn’t the primary time Cavalcante took off after allegedly killing somebody.

He’s suspected of gunning down a pal in 2017 over a dispute about automobile restore funds again in his Brazilian hometown.

After that killing, he hid out within the Brazillian ranchlands for weeks earlier than making his method north and illegally getting into the US.

A preliminary listening to for Cavalcante has been set for Sept. 27, based on court docket paperwork, which famous he was denied bail.