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FBI Probing Whether Prison Escapees Were Involed In Heroin Trafficking Ring

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- FBI investigators are probing whether the convicted murders who escaped from an upstate prison were part of an alleged heroin trafficking ring at the upstate Clinton Correctional Facility, according to CNN.

Escapees Richard Matt, left (killed), and Richard Sweat (captured)

Escapees Richard Matt, left (killed), and Richard Sweat (captured)

Photo Credit: New York State Police

The FBI has learned that escapees David Sweat and Richard Matt may have enjoyed greater freedoms than other prisoners in the so-called honor block, CNN reported, citing law enforcement officials.

Possible corruption at the prison is also being investigated, according to multiple reports.

The 23-day manhunt that cost approximately $1 million per day ended Sunday when Sweat, the remaining at-large escapee, was shot and captured about two miles south of the Canadian border in Constable, N.Y.

Sweat is in stable condition at Albany Medical Center.

Sweat's capture came two days after Matt was shot and killed when he refused to surrender about 14 miles south of Constable, near Malone, N.Y.

The news of the drug-trafficking investigation comes just hours after Sweat told authorities that the original plan for the escapees was to flee to Mexico. For more on that, check this previous Daily Voice report.

Click here to read the CNN report.

 

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