Hundreds of law enforcement officers are searching in New York’s Allegany County for two murderers who escaped a maximum-security prison more than two weeks ago, officials announced Sunday.
The response follows a Saturday tip from someone who reported seeing two men on a railroad track in the Allegany County town of Friendship who looked like Richard Matt and David Sweat. Matt, 48, and Sweat, 35, were discovered missing from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., on June 6.
“We will search under every rock, behind every tree and structure” until the area is secure, New York State Police Maj.