Crime

Escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante has been captured after an intense two-week manhunt, police said on Wednesday morning.

The 34-year-old was serving a life sentence for the murder of his ex-girlfriend at the Chester County Prison, 30 miles west of Philadelphia, when he escaped on August 31.

State police were seen posing with the Brazil native after his capture at around 8am EST. State police they will provide details of the capture at 9.30am.

Police search for eight suspects following brazen Don Mills stabbing attack

The suspect descriptions are as follows:

• Suspect #1: black hair, wearing black hoodie with white strings, black shorts, black running shoes and black side bag.
• Suspect #2: dark hair, wearing lime green t-shirt, white pants, and white shoes.
• Suspect #3: dark hair, wearing red long sleeve shirt, and white or light grey pants.
• Suspect #4: dark hair, wearing black H&M t-shirt with “New York City 33” on front.
• Suspect #5: longer dark hair, wearing black t-shirt, khaki shorts, white and black shoes.
• Suspect #6: dark hair, wearing white dress shirt with sleeves rolled up, blue jeans, and white shoes.
• Suspect #7: dark hair, wearing light blue long sleeve shirt, and white pants.
• Suspect #8: dark hair, wearing Juventus Soccer Jersey with black and white vertical stripes, light coloured pants, and black and white basketball shoes.

Those who see low-dollar shoplifters as 21st-century Jean Valjeans should realize that theft is not necessarily a nonviolent crime and that low-value theft losses can inflict severe damage on those with modest incomes.

You could blame Victor Hugo. In 1846, the French novelist observed a young man being arrested for holding a loaf of bread he stole.

Deeply touched, he fashioned his novel “Les Misérables,” published in 1862, around the character Jean Valjean, who is imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread and pursued relentlessly after his release by Inspector Javert.

Vehicles stolen from Canada are increasingly ending up in Africa and the Middle East but authorities in those countries say Canada’s law enforcement agencies have not engaged them on the issue.

The vehicles, some of which still contained their Canadian registration documents, were being off-loaded through various online channels, including social media, with buyers paying close to market price.

“We’ve become a global donor in stolen vehicles,” Michael Rothe of the Canadian Financing and Leasing Association told CBC. “From our perspective, it’s a lack of enforcement.”

A lack of enforcement? Hell the police won’t even respond if you report your car stolen.

The Democrats in capitol buildings across the country really hate the black family.

In swept Maryland legislator Jill Carter with her Juvenile Justice Reform bill to right the wrongs of systemic and institutionalized racism, and once again, the black community finds itself suffering the consequences of the politicians who pay no price for being wrong.

According to the head of the Ontario Real Estate Association, the province’s housing market is rife with dirty money.

About $30-billion worth of ill-gotten gains has been laundered through Ontario real estate transactions over a 10-year period, according to a money laundering inquiry by the British Columbia government.

Over the weekend I spent a good part of one day helping a friend do some work in his garage. At one point we realized we needed a small adapter for his socket set and a few other small items so we made a run to the hardware store.

The suspect, Leo F. Burt, has evaded capture since the anti-Vietnam War bombing at the University of Wisconsin, which was considered the largest act of domestic terrorism at the time.

In the more than 50 years since a bomb ripped through a mathematics center at the University of Wisconsin, killing a graduate student and injuring several others in what was considered an attack protesting the Vietnam War, the F.B.I. has received hundreds of tips about the whereabouts of one of the suspects, Leo F. Burt.

Just weeks after the attack on Aug. 24, 1970, a waitress in Cleveland was convinced that she had seen him. Years later, another tipster thought he had spotted Mr. Burt at a homeless shelter in Denver. One man said he had seen the fugitive working at a resort in Costa Rica. But Mr. Burt was never found.

For those who think the truth about the crime and slime associated with Jeffrey Epstein has been deep-sixed down the memory hole, there may be another bite at this rotten apple. Mimi Lui, an attorney representing the U.S. Virgin Islands, has filed suit in federal court against JPMorgan Chase. Lui charged that over $1 billion in suspicious transactions have been reported to the U.S. Treasury since Epstein’s death and that JPMorgan Chase ignored sex-trafficking red flags over many years, thus enabling these crimes. The case will go to trial on October 23 unless a settlement is reached.

Even supposedly minor lawbreaking is generally backed by the threat of violence.

Two ubiquitous phrases in debates about policing and criminal-justice policy are “nonviolent crime” and “nonviolent offender.” Are these categorizations really useful? The best test of whether an offense or offender is truly nonviolent is to intervene and try to put a stop to a so-called low-level offense and see what reaction you get. It’s not hard to see how getting involved in many such scenarios could prove dangerous. Tragically, a recent case in San Francisco illustrates these dangers vividly.

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