New escape in Pennsylvania. Nine minors escaped Sunday evening after a riot at their detention center, Abraxas Academy, around 8 p.m. local time, police said. “The fleeing minors are in principle dressed in gray pants or shorts and a gray shirt,” writes David Beohm, member of the state police, on the social network X, launching a call for testimonies. According to him, a search perimeter was established around the juvenile detention center located in Morgantown, in southern Pennsylvania.
“There was a riot at Abraxas Academy this evening,” the Caernarvon Township Police Department explained in another statement Sunday evening. The authorities there “have regained control of the juvenile detention center. »
Offenders aged 14 to 18
This center serves young male offenders ages 14 to 18 in a specialized residential treatment program, according to its website. It is located 24 km west of the rural town where the murderer was on the loose Danelo Cavalcantea 34-year-old Brazilian man sentenced to life in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend, was arrested Wednesday after two weeks of an intense manhunt.
His escape, revealed by prison camera video of Chester County broadcast by the authorities, was as spectacular as it was embarrassing for the prison, police and judicial authorities. We saw the prisoner hiding in a recess in the courtyard, then climbing agilely, spider-man style, his body horizontally between two walls, and disappearing on the roof.
2023-09-18 11:30:17
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