http://news.yahoo.com/female-prison-worker-love-agreed-drive-getaway-car-133743836.html Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said. Convicted murderers Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, escaped from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York through underground pipes and a manhole. They were discovered missing early on Saturday. More than 500 law enforcement officers, along with canine and aviation units, were involved in the manhunt, along with the FBI and other agencies, New York State Police said. A stretch of highway in Dannemora just miles from the prison was off-limits to traffic and schools in the Saranac Central School District were closed due to the search, officials said. A female prison worker questioned by police thought she had a romantic relationship with one of them and planned to drive the getaway car, NBC News reported. However, Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor in the tailor shop got cold feet and checked into a hospital for nerves on Saturday, the day the inmates were discovered missing, NBC reported, citing unnamed senior government officials. Joyce Mitchell was reportedly questioned about the prison break. (Via Facebook) The older inmate, Matt, who has a history of escape attempts, wooed Mitchell for months and established a relationship in which she agreed to drive the getaway car, the report said. "She thought it was love," an official told NBC News. The ground search was focused on a heavily wooded area east of Dannemora, along New York State Route 374, New York State Police said in a statement. Search teams were following up on a lead developed on Wednesday, police said, without elaborating. CNN, citing unidentified sources, reported that bloodhounds picked up the scent of the escapees about 3 miles from the prison. Mitchell's statements to police were incriminating enough to result in her being indicted for her role in the escape, The New York Times reported. Mitchell, who is married to another prison worker and has an adult son, earns a salary of $57,700 for the state corrections department job she has held since 2008, the Buffalo News reported. Police have declined to comment further on Mitchell, but State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said at a news conference on Wednesday: "She befriended the inmates and may have had some sort of role in assisting them."
https://gma.yahoo.com/ny-prison-esc...und-west-145617009--abc-news-topstories.html# Two DNA matches have abruptly shifted police focus west -- to Owls Head, New York -- as the frantic search for escaped convicted murderersRichard Matt and David Sweat continues. Authorities are investigating whether the inmates stayed at a hunting camp in Owls Head after positive DNA samples were confirmed from both suspects from some kind of food found at the camp ground, an official briefed on the search confirmed to ABC News. A person had also been seen fleeing from the camp, a law enforcement source close to the investigation told ABC News. NY Prison Escape: Manhunt Shifts to Area West of Prison View gallery NY Prison Escape: DNA Matches Found at Campground West of Correctional Facility (ABC News) Escaped NY Prisoners Possibly 'Riding the Rails' New York Police Search Allegany County for Possible Sighting of 2 Escaped Convicts Owls Head, a town in Franklin County, is about 30 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, where the prisoners escaped June 6. The Owls Head lead has sparked increased police presence in the area -- authorities have set up road blocks and are searching every car that goes by. New York State Police plan to hold a briefing at noon today to discuss updates in the search. New York Authorities Possibly Narrowing in on Pris …Play video Earlier, an increased police presence was reported in Friendship, New York, in the southern part of the state, after a witness reported a possible sighting of the men on Saturday. A witness called police saying she spotted two men who fit the description of Matt and Sweat on a railroad line along Route 20 in Friendship near the Pennsylvania border Saturday at 1:16 p.m., state police Major Michael Cerretto said at a news conference. Matt was serving 25 years to life after he was convicted of kidnapping and beating a man to death in 1997. Sweat was serving a life sentence after he was convicted of killing a Broome County sheriff's deputy in 2002. New York State is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of either man or $100,000 for both. The U.S. Marshals Service has placed Sweat and Matt on the 15 most wanted fugitives list and is offering a $25,000 reward.
This may explain why they can't find them. http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836 Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops N E W L O N D O N, Conn., Sept. 8, 2000 A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. “This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.” He said he does not plan to take any further legal action. Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training. Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average. Jordan alleged his rejection from the police force was discrimination. He sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law. But the U.S. District Court found that New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover. Jordan has worked as a prison guard since he took the test.
http://news.yahoo.com/search-elusive-ny-inmates-goes-back-woods-054554382.html# 2nd prison worker arrested in inmate escape case. A New York State Police officer escorts suspended Clinton Correctional Facility guard Gene Palmer, l … Prison employee Joyce Mitchell also has been charged with helping them escape. Mitchell, a prison tailor shop instructor, has pleaded not guilty and remains in custody. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Mitchell told investigators she smuggled hacksaw blades, a screwdriver and other tools into the prison by placing them in the frozen hamburger meat. He said she then placed the meat in a refrigerator in the tailor shop and Palmer took the meat to Sweat and Matt, who were housed in a section where inmates are allowed to cook their own meals. The district attorney said the guard didn't know the tools were inside the meat. Brockway said Palmer continues to cooperate with investigators who are trying to track down the fugitives. "He understands this is a public emergency, and any information that he has he will give to authorities to help capture Mr. Sweat and Mr. Matt," Brockway said. Palmer had been placed on leave on Tuesday. At the time, his attorney told television station WPTZ he was completely forthcoming during several hours of questioning on Saturday. This photo provided by the New York State Police shows Gene Palmer on Wednesday, June 24, 2015. The … "I can 100 percent confirm that he did not know they were planning on breaking out of the prison," Brockway said. Searchers hunting for the escaped killers Wednesday were contending with steep slopes, thick woods, sticky bogs, biting bugs and the possibility that the pair on the lam from prison for 19 days is armed. Police said they remain almost 100 percent certain that Sweat and Matt spent time recently at a hunting camp about 20 miles west of the correctional facility near Owls Head. A hunter said he saw a figure bolting from the cabin on Saturday morning. But after days of intense searching with dogs and helicopters, police still had no substantiated sightings of Sweat and Matt. The 75 square miles searchers focused on is on the northern edge of the sprawling Adirondack Park and includes woods so thick that visibility is only a few feet in some sections, authorities said. The woods also are dotted with hundreds of seasonal and hunting camps. State police Maj. Charles Guess said Wednesday authorities don't have confirmed evidence a shotgun was stolen from the hunting cabin near Owls Head but they've always assumed the escapees were armed. Weapons and ammunition are typically stored in camps, but not everyone keeps an inventory, he said. "Just about every cabin or outbuilding in the North Country has one or more shotguns or weapons, and we have since Day 1 operated under the belief that these men are armed," Guess said. "They are extremely dangerous, they're cunning. Why wouldn't they try to arm themselves immediately upon escape?" Guess said it was possible the pair left the area, but he promised that the more than 1,000 officers involved would keep up the relentless search until the killers are captured. "We don't want them to have a restful, peaceful night putting their head on any pillow," he said.
1,000 officers at $200+ per day = $200,000 per day just for salary not including overtime, gas lodging... Pitted against 2 guys in pajamas. The problem is no police department hires officers with IQ's as high as the average escapee's IQ. No number can overcome that disadvantage, since they refuse to hire any smart people at all. 1,000 average citizens would have caught them by now, since there are dozens of geniuses per 1,000 average citizens.
Source: New York prison escapee Richard Matt shot and killed; Sweat being pursued http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/us/new-york-prison-break/
