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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Assuming he was captured close to Malone, NY, he was 30 miles and a 5+hour walk to the nearest Canadian town, with no difficult river in between ... maybe thousands of NY cops, but no swimming issues. It appears walkable. Do a google map from Malone NY to Elgin QC.
> 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?
The forest canope would have obscured any heat signature. You can only use the IR when there aren’t too many leaves on the trees.
I'm not exactly in the best shape but I walked 5 miles this morning with my dog and didn't even break a sweat. I would have been 200-300 miles away by now. And I wouldn't have headed north towards Canada (too obvious). Instead, I'd walk south towards NYC. Then I'd find a way to get to Baltimore, in which the cops have gone on extended vacation and nobody would be looking for me down there.
Sources say that these guys were wearing jorts (cut-off jeans) and that might have something to do with them not getting so far away. Men should NEVER wear jorts. I would have found a way to get some Docker's cargo pants or something. Get a polo shirt and steal somebody's dog. Then I'd look like some yuppie out walking his dog and cops wouldn't even give me a second look.
I’m surprised they didn’t head for the reservation in the first place. Although the place is surrounded by a lot of LEO because of all the drugs coming in over the St. Lawrence Seaway. Many speedboats around there. Just like in the old days of Prohibition. BTW it’s Ottawa at that point. English speaking.
FLIR isn’t magic, it can’t see through dense foliage like you have in that area. They have had a ton of aircraft with that technology looking for him.
Stable condition? Shoot! I was hoping for the headline “No Sweat!”
The real story is the corrupt prison system in NY and WHY there was so much inside assistance for these 2 guys in the first place.The rot extends a lot further than just a couple of guards, one of who was involved sexually with Sweatt. Multiple corrupt parties were involved all the way to the top, both inside and outside the prison, is my guess. WHO is the warden for gosh sakes? WHY doesn’t the media release his name? WHY is he being so obviously protected? Was he even on the job at all? Makes me think he (or maybe it was a she) was probably a political appointee, a friend of the Gov’s, or maybe even connected to somebody big in Washington. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. I hope Sweat lives and can expose all this. Would any sane person be surprised if someone gives him a lethal injection before he can talk?
I’m surprised they stayed together so long, too. Hard to believe they didn’t have a Plan B in case their enabler backed out as she did. But I guess not to many options on the inside.
Heads should roll.
And what about that strange Fox News live shot in which a mysterious package was winched over the wall after being delivered by somebody in civilian clothes? What was all that about?
An explanation was quickly tossed out there that is was "lunch" being delivered to the guards in the tower. But I'm not buying it. Prison officials have been strangely silent about that episode.
Obviously we had people asleep at the switch here.
At the time it happened there were retired guards from several prisons who explained it was lunch. Nothing more or less.
And the network reporters breath a sigh of relief that they will soon depart from the boondocks for some place with more amenities than north eastern NY.
#handsupdon’tshoot
Another point: They spent months digging for several hundred yards underneath the building for God’s sake. And no one knew about this? No one heard them down there? How did they light up the area so they could see what they were doing? All of this took hours and hours of hard manual labor. And we are asked to believe that these 2 guys did all that all by themselves? Wouldn’t people up above had heard the noise made by the drills? Does any of this makes sense? Why isn’t anyone in the media asking these questions?
The guy who killed Matt was Border Patrol, not NYSP, and he had three hits in the head from a rifle, pretty good shooting.
There are a number of misconceptions about this breakout. First, they did not have to dig. The power plant is outside the walls - about three blocks away. It is connected to the prison by tunnels. The escapees were able to use those tunnels as soon as the weather was warm enough and the steam pipes were turned off.
Re the lunch going up to the towers. The wall that you see in the pictures is the outside prison. The prison itself is not connected to the walls. Once inside that wall you are NOT inside the prison. To get inside the prison you must go through a number of security checkpoints.
There is no way to get into the prison through those towers. Guards get up into those towers at the beginning of their shift. They cannot get into the prison from there. They cannot get contraband into the prison from there.
I would have to disagree. I’ve been there when the water temp was 75. Just tread water and paddle toward the left and you’re across the river. I did that once when my 14 footer capsized.
"If I was being locked up, I'd choose Clinton Correctional."
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You'll love being locked-up here.
A home away from home. BBQ and beer every Sat night.
Friendly, helpful prison guards ready to do your bidding.
Escape routes prominently displayed....you're out in no time.
Dr Ruth on-hand for consultation---"how to get it on in the slammer."
B/c I wondered what a boiled kale stem sounded like.... if it could talk.
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