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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Convicted killers used power tools to escape
DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP)
— Two convicted murderers
used power tools to cut through
steel pipes at a maximum-secu-
rity prison near the Canadian
border and escape through a
manhole, Gov. Andrew Cuomo
said Saturday.
“It was an elaborate plot,” Cu-
omo said after joining law en-
forcement authorities to retrace
the prisoners’ escape route from
the Clinton Correctional Facility
in the town of Dannemora in the
Adirondacks.
maximum-security portion of
the prison since it was built in
1865.
He said Richard Matt, 48,
and David Sweat, 34, are “two
dangerous individuals.”
Sweat is serving a sentence of
life without parole after he was
convicted of first-degree murder
for killing a Broome County
sheriff’s deputy in 2002.
Matt is serving a sentence of
25 years to life for the kidnap-
ping and beating death of a man
in 1997.
The two men’s adjoining cells
were empty during a morning
check, said Anthony Annuci, the
the men acquired the power
tools.
cording to police.
He weighs 210 pounds and
has tattoos including “Mexico
Forever” on his back, a heart on
his chest and left shoulder and a
Marine Corps insignia on his
right shoulder.
Sweat and another man fired
15 rounds into Deputy Kevin
Tarsia on the Fourth of July in
2002 shortly after using a pick-
up truck to break into a Pennsyl-
vania woman’s house, stealing
rifles and handguns, authorities
have said.
acting state corrections commis-
sioner.
“A search revealed that there
was a hole cut out of the back of
the cell through which these in-
mates escaped,” Annucci said.
“They went onto a catwalk
which is about six stories high.
We estimate they climbed down
and had power tools and were
able to get out to this facility
through tunnels, cutting away at
several spots.”
Authorities said there are
many questions including how
Annucci said prison author-
ities are checking to see if any
power tools are missing from
contractors at the prison.
Maj. Charles E. Guess of the
state police said more than 200
officers from multiple agencies
were searching for the inmates.
The search included blood-
hounds and aerial surveillance,
he said.
Cuomo said the prison break
was the first escape from the
The prison is about 20 miles
from the Canadian border.
Roadblocks were set up in the
area, WIRY-AM reported.
Sweat is white, 5 feet 11 inch-
es, with brown hair and green
eyes and weighs 165 pounds, po-
lice said.
He has tattoos on his left bi-
cep and his right fingers.
Matt is white, 6 feet tall, with
black hair and hazel eyes, ac-
GOP 2016 contenders
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ads and debates will come later.
On Saturday, several Republi-
can presidential contenders
fought for an edge among mo-
torcycles, puppies, war heroes
and roasted pork, having
swapped dark suits for blue
jeans to meet Iowans eight
months before they cast the first
votes of the 2016 presidential
primary.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
and former Texas Gov. Rick Per-
ry cruised to an afternoon presi-
dential forum on Harley-David-
son motorcycles, leading sepa-
rate rides of hundreds — many
military veterans among them
— as their Republican compet-
itors chatted up would-be sup-
porters over barbecue and pota-
to salad.
“What a great day this morn-
ing was — out there on a Harley-
Davidson, riding by the heart-
land of America,” Perry said.
“That is what America’s all
about. Living freedom, riding
free.”
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Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks to a
supporter making a video on a cellphone during a fundraiser
for U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-lowa, on Saturday in Boone, Iowa.
to ask that question face to face.”
Indeed, before giving brief
speeches from a stage flanked by
bales of hay, the Republicans
contenders crisscrossed the
sprawling outdoor venue trailed
by packs of curious voters. They
sliced meat, posed for pictures
and made small talk with any-
one who would listen.
Just two months before the
first nationally televised debate,
Walker is expected to announce
his candidacy in the coming
weeks. Perry launched his presi-
dential bid on Thursday. The
Saturday attendees included re-
cently declared candidates Sens.
Marco Rubio of Florida and
Lindsey Graham of South Caro-
lina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike
Huckabee, retired neurosur-
geon Ben Carson and former
tech executive Carly Fiorina.
Offering the nation’s first vot-
ing contest, Iowa becomes a crit-
ical state for candidates eager to
stand out in a pack of more than
a dozen prospective candidates.
“I love ribs,” a smiling Walker
said as he sliced into a freshly
cooked rack of baby back ribs,
noting that he proposed to his
wife at a barbecue restaurant.
Posing for pictures with vot-
ers near the barbecue tents, Gra-
ham said that this kind of
campaigning “is the difference
between winning and losing.”
“If you don’t do this you’re go-
ing to lose,” he said. “God bless
the Iowa caucuses.”
There was virtually no in-
fighting among the Republican,
although a few jabbed Demo-
cratic front-runner Hillary Rod-
ham Clinton, who has had few
unscripted moments in her 2016
campaign so far.
Fiorina questioned whether
Clinton had ever ridden on a
John Deere tractor, as Fiorina
did earlier in the day at another
event.
Perry’s ride raised money for
the Puppy Jake Foundation, an
Iowa-based group that trains
service dogs for wounded veter-
ans.
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Walker, wearing a black
“Bom to Ride” T-shirt, said,
“You’ve got to have fun on cam-
paigns — or would-be cam-
paigns — along the way”
Beyond fun, candidates
gained a valuable and unscript-
ed opportunity to connect with
voters at an event dubbed a
“roast and ride” by its host, fresh-
man Republican Sen. Joni
Ernst. It served as a prime politi-
cal gathering with the state’s
straw poll losing its relevance
and its annual steak fry for
Democrats ended.
“I think in Iowa it is extreme-
ly important to do this,” said
Ernst on retail politicking. “Io-
wans want to see their candi-
dates, they want to reach out
and shake their hand, they want
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