Items recovered from N.Y. cabin as police seek escaped killers
Corrections officers stop a vehicle as the search for two escaped prisoners from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora continues Monday in Owls Head, N.Y.
BELLMONT, N.Y. » Authorities say items recovered from a remote hunting cabin have been sent to labs for DNA testing to determine if they’re linked to a pair of convicted killers who escaped from a nearby prison more than two weeks ago.
State Police Maj. Charles Guess says "specific items" were taken from the Adirondack cabin about 20 miles west of the prison where inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped June 6. He wouldn’t elaborate on them.
Meanwhile, searchers converged on a wooded area in the hamlet in far northern New York. It was the latest search since the inmates broke out of the Clinton County Correctional Facility.
Acting Franklin County District Attorney Glenn MacNeill told WPTZ-TV Sunday that a hunter reported seeing a person fleeing from a camp in the area.
