A convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail was captured on Wednesday with the help of a heat-sensing aircraft and a police dog, ending a tense, two-week manhunt that unnerved residents in the Philadelphia suburbs, authorities said.
Tactical teams surrounded the fugitive, Danelo Cavalcante, at around 8 a.m. in a rural area about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Philadelphia. As he tried to crawl away, a police dog subdued him, and he was forcibly taken into custody, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said.
