Cuomo said investigators are looking into whether outside contractors or the contractors' employees had any connection to the escapees. Parts of Clinton Correctional are under renovation. On the pipe, the escapees left a taunting Post-It note with a racially tinged smiley face drawn in an Asian caricature and a message that read "Have A Nice Day." The governor said the steam pipe is only 24-inches wide, and the inmates had to crawl for some distance before reaching the manhole cover in the village of Dannemora. Matt and Sweat then crawled down to a tunnel below, broke through a thick wall made of brick before finding a steam pipe that leads out of the prison. State Police said they are following up on more than 150 leads, paying special attention to the areas of western New York and Broome County, where Matt and Sweat are, respectively, from.Ĭuomo said Sunday there were no tips that would lead officials to a "specific conclusion." Officials said the pair could be traveling alone or together and could have received assistance from the outside.Ī number of questions about the breakout remain unresolved, including how Matt and Sweat had the time and opportunity to acquire the power tools they used to get out.Ĭuomo, who toured the escape route inside the prison Saturday, said the inmates sawed through the solid, steel plate of their cell walls, before climbing onto a catwalk in the prison's interior. Sweat is serving a sentence of life without parole for killing a Broome County sheriff's deputy in 2002. Matt is serving a 25-year-to-life sentence for killing and dismembering a former boss in Niagara County in 1997. "I've lived here for so long and it's never happened, so you can't believe that it has happened." "I thought it was a drill," said Cerone, who has lived in the village for 35 years. Jason Cerone, 40, was walking his dog in the morning when he saw guards with rifles, an armored car and investigators looking in empty houses and even garbage cans. More than 100 people are assisting on ground searches, and aircraft are being used as well, Guess said. The manhunt included members of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, state Forest Rangers, U.S. Guess said that a grid search across the area was being done. State Police Troop B Commander Charles E. "You locked your cars, you locked your house, but you didn't stop what you were doing," she said. Like many area residents, the increased police presence didn't seem to faze Wood and her family, who still worshipped Sunday at Dannemora United Methodist Church. Road blocks ran up State Route 374 and continued throughout the village, on the northeast corner of the vast 6 million acre Adirondack Park, with armed police and corrections officers checking backseats, trunks and truck beds.Ĭhristine Wood, of Peru, Clinton County, said her daughter has been counting how many road blocks they had driven through.
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A number of infamous prisoners are serving time there, including serial killer Joel Rifkin and Christopher Porco, the Bethlehem man who killed his father and maimed his mother with an ax. The prison's exterior wall towers over the main thoroughfare of this village of just under 4,000 people. Law enforcement said they also reached out to officials in Mexico, where Matt has ties. The village is surrounded by the heavily forested and sparsely populated Adirondack State Park.
"They could be anywhere in the state by this time," Cuomo said Sunday, adding the two men could have escaped over the nearby Canadian border or vanished into neighboring Vermont. They vanished sometime late Friday or early Saturday. The first people to escape from the Dannemora prison since it was built in the mid 1800s, Matt and Sweat sawed through walls and pipes to crawl through a steam pipe to freedom outside the maximum-security prison's walls. Saturday and quickly determined they had gotten out. Guards discovered the two men were not sleeping in their cells at 5:30 a.m.
The massive hunt for Matt and Sweat, in its second day Sunday, included roughly 100 State Police officers, local law enforcement, and over 250 corrections officers, with state officials saying the prisoners could be anywhere in New York, Vermont or Canada. They are capable of committing grave crimes," Cuomo said during an afternoon telephone conference with reporters. "This is a crisis situation for the state.
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