And We're Done

 

The second escapee from Dannemora has been captured. 

From the NY Post:

Fugitive prisoner David Sweat was shot and wounded during a confrontation with cops searching for him near the Canadian border, law-enforcement sources told The Post late Sunday afternoon.

Sweat, 35, was spotted in Constable, N.Y., by a state police sergeant who tried to talk to him before the bullets started flying, one source said.

Sweat was shot twice before being taken into custody, according to CNN, which obtained a phot​o​ of him bloodied and sitting on the ground, apparently handcuffed and being held by two ​troopers wearing disposable gloves.

Ohhhhh Great....

Another DOCCS employee has been arrested and charged with aiding in the escape of two convicted murderers from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate NY. And now the State Police think that the escaped prisoners are armed.

Mr. Palmer’s arrest came as law enforcement officers searched 75 square miles of densely forested terrain on Wednesday in pursuit of the two escaped murderers. The New York State Police said investigators are working on the assumption that the pair had a firearm.

The inmates, who the police believe were at a hunting cabin near Owls Head, N.Y., around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, would most likely have found a supply of weapons there, Maj. Charles E. Guess said at a news conference on Wednesday.

The cabin contained items with DNA matching that of the two killers, Mr. Matt, who turns 49 on Thursday, and Mr. Sweat, 35, and Major Guess said a man arriving there reported seeing “someone fleeing into the woods.”

Investigators had no conclusive evidence that the inmates took a shotgun from the cabin but were operating as if they were armed, in part because almost every hunting cabin in the North Country had at least one weapon, Major Guess said.

Cuomo's Clusterf**k

Don't look at me, The NY Post went with it.

Cuomo created ‘total cluster f—k’ in escaped-killers hunt

The massive manhunt for two escaped murderers from the Dannemora prison has been hampered by State Police secrecy, inter-agency rivalries, and the disrupting involvement of Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the first day of the breakout, law enforcement sources have told The Post.

Cuomo’s surprise arrival at a still-unfolding escape scene a week ago Saturday generated considerable national publicity for the governor, but distracted investigators at a time when the full facts of the escape were not yet known, the sources said.

[...]“Cuomo’s aides came in and threw out the US marshal, the sheriff [David Favro, like Cuomo a Democrat] and others who were there to help coordinate the search effort. “And they did it without even saying ‘Thanks for your help’ or such, just, ‘Get out so his highness can enter.’

“The State Police are trying to make sure that they’re the ones to catch these guys, that they get all the credit, and as a result, they’re not making full use of the assets that are available to them,’’ the source continued.

Cuomo doesn't realize this, but if you piss off enough people and some things don't go the way you want. The State has turned a manhunt for two extremely dangerous criminals into a kabuki honor/pride theater.

The sources, meanwhile, said the State Police, the lead agency, had repeatedly refused to share information on the design and scope of the manhunt with the local police, the Clinton County Sheriff’s Department, the state Correctional Services Department and the state Environmental Conservation Department, whose police officers are part of the search, as well as the US Marshals Service.

We were talking about it at work this afternoon as one of the cops was involved in the search. He said he never saw anything like it; about 800 cops tearing up the area looking for these two. Suspicion is that they may have holed up in a house somewhere, possibly taken hostages.

Accomplice To Dannemora Murderers' Escape Arrested

From Yahoo News:

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison was arraigned Friday night on charges she helped two convicted killers escape last weekend.

Prison tailor shop instructor Joyce Mitchell, 51, was arraigned on the felony charge of promoting prison contraband and misdemeanor count of criminal facilitation. Her lawyer, Keith Bruno, entered a not guilty plea on her behalf.

Mitchell is accused of befriending inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and giving them contraband.

She entered the courtroom with her hands cuffed in front of her, clad in jeans and a green top and looking terrified. She did not speak. She was ordered held in jail on $100,000 cash bail or $200,000 bond on felony count and is due back in court Monday morning.

Looks like our tailor shop instructor will be using her sewing skills to redecorate her own cell.

Seriously, what was she thinking when she agreed to help this garbage escape from prison?  One guy shot a cop multiple times and ran him over and the other mook tortured and dismembered his boss and then a year later stove some other guy's head in: "Yep - I wanna help these poor misguided men." She had to be getting boned by one or both of these idiots.

Murderers Escape Maximum Security Prison - Update

 Richard Matt                        David Sweat

Two convicted murderers have escaped from the Clinton Correctional facility. The two men, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing Saturday morning, 5 Jun 15. They used power tools to escape the maximum-security prison located near the Canadian border in Upstate NY, about a 4 hour drive from Syracuse. Both men are serving life sentences without parole.

David Sweat murdered a Broome County sheriff's deputy, Kevin Tarsia, in 2002. Dep. Tarsia was killed when he approached Sweat and his two  accomplices after they burglarized a gun shop.

Richard Matt is serving 25 years to life for the beating death of North Tonawanda businessman William Rickerson. Matt tortured and beat the 76-year-old before killing him.

 Deputy Tarsia

Of course the there is incompete information as the investigation continues, but the question springs to mind, HTF did these two mooks use power tools to bust through steel reinforced concrete walls?

My two cents: someone was paid to look the other way.

UPDATE:
They cut through a big steel pipe and crawled inside it until they found an access cover to escape through. More here.

8 Jun 15
A female DOCCS employee is being questioned regarding the escape.  Story here.

Perhaps A Class Trip Was Next On Her List?

Some idiot in NJ decides that she will provide comfort to a murderer by having her third grade class write letters of support to him.

TRENTON, N.J. — A teacher in New Jersey who assigned her third-grade class to write “get well” letters to a sick inmate convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer was suspended Friday, the school superintendent said.

Orange School Superintendent Ronald Lee said in a statement that school administrators “vehemently deny” any knowledge of Marylin Zuniga’s assignment. Preliminary inquiries found that Zuniga did not seek approval from administrators nor were parents notified, Lee said.

The letters were delivered to Mumia Abu-Jamal in prison following his hospitalization last month for what his family said was treatment for complications from diabetes. The former Black Panther is serving life behind bars for the 1981 murder of white Philadelphia police Officer Daniel Faulkner.

This class must now write letters of condolence to Officer Faulkner' widow and more letters to the Gov. demanding that this POS being kept alive at taxpayer expense be summarily executed. Oh, and fire her ass immediately.