Posted on 06/28/2015 1:46:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that David Sweat, 35, the second convicted killer who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6, has been shot and captured in the town of Constable, New York, near the Village of Malone, just a few miles south of the Canadian Border.
According to tweets from Press-Republican editor Lois Clermont, Sweat has been taken to a local hospital and is in stable condition.
Here is the report from the Press-Republican:
4:05 p.m.: Sweat is alive, Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill tells Press-Republican.
4:04 p.m.: Sweat rolled in on stretcher, IV poles showing. Sheriff’s deputy wearing bulletproof vest by door of ER. Other police clustered nearby.
4:02 p.m.: Two ambulances with a caravan of police arrive at hospital.
3:58: Press-Republican sources confirm it is Sweat and that a CERT team was at the shooting site.
3:56 p.m.: Law enforcement officers piling out of cars at Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone.
3:50 p.m.: No law enforcement injured.
3:45 p.m. Wounded man serious.
3:28 p.m. Radio report says suspect down.
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bring him back to prison to continue a life sentence? *sigh*
Shooting unarmed thugs?
Oh wait - wrong pigment...
What will the cable news networks talk endlessly about now?
Pull the Plug!!!!
And he refused to comply with officers demands..waiting for #CriminalLivesMatter protests to take place..oops almost forgot, the perp is white my bad
But he almost made it out of the huge prison camp that is the territory once known as “the United States of America”.
Within concrete walls or not, he never escaped the mentality that put him there in the first place.
Maybe, with luck, he will contract a life-threatening chronic condition, and take his parole early from the remaining life sentence.
They shoot to kill if it is a mad dog on the loose. Did the right thing by the first guy.
This does not bode well for Gov. Cuomo and the prison staff. Sweat was supposed to be killed so he couldn’t out the entire circus running the prison!!!!!!
Straight north of where the first inmate was killed.
Once his pal was dead, must have decided to head towards Canada. Not sure why they didn’t go there from day one.
Problem is have the St Lawrence River between you and Canada
Too swift and cold to swim - bridges will be guarded.....
He’s still alive?
Law enforcement needs more practice time at the shooting range.
Look at a map
Cuomo is going on tv and said that he capture Sweat.
CNN will have to lose another aircraft...
Why couldn’t they use a drone with heat seeking tech and catch his guy in the woods a week+ ago? What took so freaking long?
Not too far from where he was apprehended is the St. Regis Mohawk reservation. That res sits half in NY and the other half in Quebec. Had they gotten there, getting across that river would have been fairly easy.
The drones kept tracking on raccoons and skunks....
And these critters were making the dogs nuts.
Getting to Canada would be no guarantee of “freedom” but certainly, there would not be 1000 NY State Troopers, ATF, CBP, etc... pursuing them. Quebec especially would be a bit prickly on their sovereignty with 1000 armed American government forces crossing their border.
TV and news is also different, as well as language. They would much less likely be recognized.
But this caper was obviously poorly planned as they barely made it 30 miles away from the prison after being on the loose for two weeks. Plus, they were wearing jorts.
One worm dead. Another bitterly miserable.
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