The story you aren't being told about now captured Pennsylvania inmate

What you need to know

34-year-old Danelo Cavalcante has been captured after being on the run since August 31 after he escaped prison by scaling a prison wall, climbing through razor wire, and jumping from the roof to freedom. His escape triggered a massive manhunt in the terrain of Longwood Gardens that continued 20 miles north when police say he slipped through their original perimeter in a stolen van. 

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One important fact the media has not been focusing on is that Cavalcante came into the United States illegally. He should not have been in the United States.

It was on August 22 when Cavalcante was sentenced to life in prison in the brutal stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend in front of her children outside their northern Chester County, Pennsylvania home in 2021. The sentence came just days after a jury convicted him on first-degree murder.

Cavalcante is a native of Brazil. At his sentencing hearing in his ex-girlfriend’s death, his attorneys said that he had grown up poor and had been a victim of abuse himself. He began associating with gang members and became addicted to drugs and alcohol, they said.

He speaks both Portuguese and English.

Cavalcante is wanted in Brazil for the murder of a man who owed him money. Police there said he shot a man dead in the town of Figueriopolis, located in the northern state of Tocantinis, in November 2017, according to the BBC.

The BBC reported that the killing stemmed from an “alleged debt related to the repair of a vehicle,” according to police. He allegedly shot the man six times, stole his cell phone, and then fled the scene in a car, the BBC reported.

A warrant was issued for Cavalcante’s arrest in June 2018.

After the murder, Cavalcante came to the United States illegally, fleeing to Puerto Rico in 2019. He eventually settled in Schuylkill Township in Chester County.

I am giving you a different look at stories. The fact that Cavalcante entered the country illegally is a big part of the story that for many in the media has been ignored.