-[gunshot] -[man screams]
[bleeping]
[man speaking]
[Art] Lawbreakers push the legal limits of right and wrong.
[woman speaks]
[Art] And there's a price to pay for committing crimes.
[taser fired]
But some delinquents aren't ready to serve their time quietly.
So law enforcement have to re-catch these crafty crooks...
who are back on the loose.
-[gunshot] -[officer speaking]
[multiple gunshots]
[officer speaking furiously]
[Art] In Sandoval County, New Mexico,
a gang of inmates are attempting a violent prison escape.
And have taken over a cellblock.
So the prison's tactical response team moves in to take control.
During prison riots,
corrections officers use non-lethal tactics
to destabilize incarcerated persons.
Since prisoners do not have access to guns or ammunition.
Officers try to slip a paintball gun through the slot,
in an attempt to back them off the door.
But prisoners stuff the opening with the clothes off their back.
They unleash a flash bang grenade to break up the barricade.
Which creates a bright hot flash.
And a loud noise.
But inmates are unfazed.
And retain control over the cellblock.
The corrections team goes for the double whammy...
hitting them with gas and another flash bang grenade,
at the same time.
They take back the prison unit and stop the jailbreak.
Prisoners were hit with multiple charges.
Including unlawful assault on a jail.
[Michael] When you're called in to quell a prison riot,
you're literally the boots on the ground.
You don't get to have
an overhead view of what's going on.
So normally, there's a control center,
basically directing you as a unit on where to go.
You're not acting on your own.
You're acting within a team structure
to minimize the amount of damage and injuries
to the inmates and the facility.
[officers conversing]
[Art] The odds of a successful prison escape is just 1%.
So most suspects
try to seize their moment before serving time.
[woman speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Art] Like trying capers...
from the backs of cop cars.
In Michigan, this woman was arrested for drunk driving.
[woman speaking]
[officer speaking]
She seems apologetic.
But she's got a trick up her sleeve.
Police handcuffs have been the same size
since they were invented 150 years ago.
But apparently, if your hand is smaller than your wrist,
you can slide them right off.
[woman speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Art] I guess she just wanted to try out her new party trick.
In Grady County, Oklahoma, a woman has been handcuffed and detained
after her neighbors found her high on meth,
crawling around on her front lawn and barking like a dog.
While the officers get their statement,
she improvises an escape plan.
She skillfully slips her hands out of the handcuffs.
And searches the cruiser for a way out.
She struggles through the partition.
And finds this.
Uh-oh.
[officer speaking]
-[gunshot] -[man screams]
[bleeping]
-[multiple gunshots] -[bleeping]
[officer speaking]
[gunshots continue]
[Art] With her cuffs off, the woman wrestles the police rifle free
from the front seat rack and opens fire.
[firing gun]
[Art] Her first bullet strikes her neighbor.
-[gunshot] -[man screams]
[bleeping]
And grazes the deputy in the head.
[multiple shots fired]
They take cover behind another cruiser and call for more backup.
[gunshots continue]
After several hours, the standoff ended.
She was charged with three felony counts
of shooting with intent to kill.
The deputy and her neighbor only suffered minor injuries
in the surprise shootout.
[Michael] A lot of times how a call is dispatched to law enforcement
is the only information we have to go on.
So we're planning when we get there,
based off of what we're told in advance.
So although it seems like a low stress call,
those have more of a likelihood of going south
than an actual crime in progress.
With a crime in progress, we're expecting it.
[officer speaking]
[Art] On a routine traffic stop in Oregon,
two officers have pulled over a driver
with an active warrant for theft.
[woman speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Art] As they put her in handcuffs,
she requests to feed her dogs before heading downtown.
The generous deputies agreed to let her take care of her pets,
before she's locked up overnight.
[officer speaking]
[officer] Okay.
[officer speaking]
[woman speaks]
[officer speaking]
[Art] As they enter, chaos erupts when she can't control the dogs.
[dogs barking]
[officer] Sit. Sit.
[Art] So one officer leashes one of the pups and leads him out.
[officer speaking]
[Art] But inside the house, as the second officer wrangles the other dog...
-[officer speaking] Hi. -[dog barks]
[Art] ...the suspect seizes the moment.
-[gunshot] -[officer screams]
[gunshots fired]
[woman] My dogs are at home.
[officer speaking]
[Art] In Gladstone, Oregon,
police have arrested a woman and escorted her to her home
to care for her dogs before she's detained.
But once inside, this devious damsel separates the officers.
-[gunshot] -[officer screams]
[Art] Retrieves a .9 mm handgun from her bedroom
and attempts to shoot her way out of the situation.
-Striking the officer in the house. -[gunshots fired]
While his partner stands ready to take her down
if she makes a move down the hallway.
The seriously wounded officer crawls into the other room.
[gunshots fired]
[gunshots continue]
She continues her shooting spree from the stairwell.
As the cops return fire...
-[gunshots fired] -[officer] Drop the gun!
[Art] ...with his partner trapped inside the house.
[officer] Drop the gun!
[Art] Backup finally arrives.
[officer speaking]
[backup officer speaking]
[officer] Okay.
[officer] I'm stuck in between where the suspect went down
and my partner-- Give me a shield.
I need to get a tourniquet.
[backup officer] Where do you need it?
[officer] Cover me! She's the [bleeps] shooter.
I'm gonna get in the flank. Get tanking on her!
All right? Going in.
On the right! On the right! On the right!
[Art] As he applies a tourniquet,
the backup officers immobilize and apprehend the suspect.
[backup officer]
[Art] The officer suffered gunshot wounds to his leg and arm.
But fully recovered and returned to duty.
As a law enforcement agency, we like to make firearms training
part of our muscle memory.
Because we have to be thinking
about other things that we're doing.
The higher the stress situation,
the more muscle memory we need.
So that we can concentrate on the situation
that's going on in front of us.
[Art] For her spontaneous attack,
the unassuming suspect was sentenced to 10 years in prison
for attempted aggravated murder, first degree assault,
and attempt to commit a Class B felony.
[officer speaking]
[Art] But not all suspects fight for their freedom.
Some just make a run for it.
At a courthouse in Utah,
this criminal tries to escape with the leap of a lifetime.
Before the leaping lawbreaker can hit the ground,
security swarms the scene.
They even try to break his fall.
Thankfully, he still has his handcuffs on.
So they don't even have to re-arrest him.
The high-wire criminal has to go back to court a few weeks later.
This time, with a broken leg, pelvis, and a fracture in his skull.
Plus a litany of new charges for his failed flop at freedom.
[man thuds on floor]
He should've taken the stairs...
like this guy,
who's making a break for it through the courtroom
with deputies hot on his tail.
Well, that's one way to get your steps in.
This defendant was so determined to gain his freedom...
[taser fired]
...he's not letting anything stop him.
-[taser fired] -Not even 20,000 volts of electricity.
With AC current coursing through his veins,
he makes it down the hallway
and through the police security checkpoint.
Nothing can hold this guy down.
But he was ultimately brought back to justice
just minutes later, in the parking lot.
[judge bangs gavel] Next case.
[Art] During a court appearance in Oklahoma,
the judge has ordered this green day wannabe
to sit in the back of the courtroom,
until a detention officer can bring him to a holding cell.
But this nimrod just keeps going.
Quietly walking down the aisle and right out the door.
But this alert court clerk is on the case.
While the suspect frantically runs the halls looking for a way out.
Just stay cool, man.
You'll blend in.
The common cool legal clerk has already alerted security...
to lock down the building.
And captured the delinquent at the door.
I hope he had the time of his life.
Because in addition to the 10 years he's currently serving,
he wound up with charges for attempted escape
and resisting arrest.
[Jameca] In many cases, when individuals are trying to escape court,
the main reason is the avoidance of the consequences.
And for some people, criminal or not,
they simply want to avoid any consequence.
There is probably an amount of panic
that people in those situations feel.
And they're just trying to get out of that immediate situation.
[Art] In Alabama, inmate Casey White,
is awaiting trial for capital murder.
The only two sentences are life in prison or capital punishment.
When the prison guard transfers Casey,
an inconceivable plan is revealed.
The corrections officer, is also his girlfriend.
The jailbird and the lovebird load into a police vehicle.
And look to sneak away unnoticed.
[woman speaks]
[Casey speaks]
[Art] But their escape turns into a dangerous chase.
[woman speaks]
[Art] At a courthouse in Ohio,
a group of convicts are being escorted
from their holding cell to trial.
But one of them, has second thoughts.
The runaway rebel is facing
five counts of theft and criminal trespassing.
So he decides to make a break for it.
As he makes his run,
a gaggle of officers take off after him.
As bystanders marvel at his 40 time,
he heads down the hall...
but hits a wall.
His make or break run ended up breaking.
And the crook was taken back to his holding cell and hit with another charge.
A third degree felony for attempted escape.
At the Lauderdale County Detention Center,
convict Casey White is awaiting trial for a capital murder case.
The 6'9" colossal convict has a history
of sweet talking corrections officers.
And he apparently has wooed CO Vicky White.
On the way to a supposed mental competency hearing,
Vicky walks Casey to her patrol car and they vanish.
[Jameca] When people spend a large amount of time together,
they, in a lot of ways, become connected, just like family.
And incarcerated individuals, many times are highly skilled
in manipulating individuals.
And we'll manipulate people and situations to get their needs met.
And they don't care what the consequences are to other people.
[Art] Before the authorities figure out the plot...
the couple has traveled hundreds of miles from the detention center,
frequently changing hotel rooms and cars to remain undetected.
The couple make appearances on various surveillance cameras.
But the police are always one step behind.
Until they receive a call from a car wash in Indiana...
stating that a large man has suspiciously abandoned a truck...
and departed in a gray Cadillac.
[officer] Looks like every other Tennessee plate I've seen.
[Art] Police immediately investigate the tape and vehicle.
[officer speaking]
[Art] The officers don't find much to go on, but they know it's their guy.
[officer speaking]
[Art] Evansville police spot the getaway car across town.
And the chase of a lifetime begins.
[Vicky speaks]
[Art] As the pursuit intensifies,
things seem to fly south for the lovebirds.
A 911 operator receives a distressing call from Vicky's phone.
Vicky is heard desperately pleading
with the man she helped escape.
[Vicky speaks]
[911 operator] Hello?
[Art] And police crash into the car...
and halt the vehicle.
Officers swarmed the wreck and apprehend Casey.
[man speaks]
But they find Vicky with what authorities believe
is a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Casey White returns to prison.
And is given a life sentence.
All the pursuing officers were unharmed.
In the unlikely event that an escape does happen
from a prison or a jail and you are able to evade
all of the barbed wire, the canine units,
it absolutely will result in a manhunt
in order to bring you back into custody.
[Art] At the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania,
convicted murderer, Danilo Cavalcante makes a daring escape from prison.
And fleas into the rural town of Pocopson.
And the manhunt begins.
Twenty four hours later,
this criminal is spotted on a Pennsylvania state security camera
along a highway.
But he slips away.
Officers move their search efforts 20 miles north and create a new perimeter.
They now enlist support of the DEA.
And a thermal heat-detecting helicopter.
And there, in the thick of the Pennsylvania wilderness, is Danilo.
He can't escape his own body heat.
[man speaking]
[Art] After a 14-day manhunt, Danilo Cavalcante is thrown back in prison,
where he'll spend the rest of his life.
[Michael] If you're arrested or you're in detention,
human nature is always to try and figure a way out.
In my training, we assume everybody
that is apprehended is going to try and escape.
And so, I do believe that that runs through everybody's mind at some point
during their arrest process or during their incarceration.