DANNEMORA, N.Y.– New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says two convicted murderers used power tools to cut through steel walls and escape from a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border.
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Cuomo says 48-year-old Richard Matt and 34-year-old David Sweat are “dangerous individuals” who escaped through an elaborate plot. Officials are trying to determine where they got the power tools.
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Cuomo spoke Saturday at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora after joining law enforcement authorities to trace the men’s escape route.
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Authorities say Matt and Sweat were discovered missing from the prison Saturday morning.
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Sweat is serving a sentence of life without parole in the slaying of a Broome County sheriff’s deputy in 2002. Matt is serving 25 years to life for the beating death of a man in 1997.
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