Police: 2 Men Picked Up By Philadelphia Cab Driver Not The NY Convicts
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say surveillance video shows two men picked up by a Philadelphia cabbie were not the escaped New York killers.
The cabbie alerted police Wednesday morning after driving men matching the descriptions of missing inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat to the city's Amtrak station.
Police questioned the driver and reviewed surveillance video of the trip before determining they were not a match.
The 48-year-old Matt and 34-year-old Sweat were discovered missing Saturday.
Authorities say they used power tools to cut through a steel wall and break through bricks at the 3,000-inmate Clinton Correctional Facility in far northern New York. They say the men crawled through a steam pipe to an outside manhole.
Police are searching the woods a few miles from the maximum-security prison.
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