Mass. Billboards Display Mugshots Of Escaped New York Prisoners
BOSTON (AP) -- State police say more than 50 digital billboards in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are displaying mugshots and information about the two men who escaped from a northern New York prison.
Troopers say Wednesday the billboards donated by Lamar Advertising are part of a continuing effort to notify the public of the escape and generate new leads in the case.
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The billboards feature information about 48-year-old Richard Matt and 34-year-old David Sweat. The convicted murderers were discovered missing from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora early Saturday.
The billboards are across New York; near Boston, Massachusetts; and in north central and Erie, Pennsylvania.
Corrections officers in helmets and body armor also are searching houses near the northern New York prison.
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