--- description: There was a specific tip from the small town of Willsboro in upstate New York title: Authorities Descend on New York Town in Pursuit of Prison Escapees image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e9e4dfde1a3226d/698853d2cd1bba796d6fbbd0/richard-matt-david-sweat.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Authorities Descend on New York Town in Pursuit of Prison Escapees by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 9, 2015 9:18 PM CUT  A heavily armed law enforcement officer patrols the edge of road during a search for two escaped killers in Boquet, N.Y. on June 9, 2015. A heavily armed law enforcement officer patrols the edge of road during a search for two escaped killers in Boquet, N.Y. on June 9, 2015.Seth Wenig—AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 9, 2015 9:18 PM CUT Authorities converged Tuesday on the small upstate New York town of Willsboro in search of Richard Matt and David Sweat, the convicted murderers who busted out of a maximum-security prison over the weekend with power tools. Beau Duffy, a spokesman for the New York State Police, told NBC News that police responded with a heavy ground and aviation presence Tuesday after they got a specific tip from the Willsboro area, which is across Lake Champlain from Burlington, Vermont, and about 40 miles southeast of Clinton Correctional Facility, [from which the men escaped overnight Friday](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-convicted-murderers-escape-new-york-prison-n370991 "undefined"). FBI agents, state troopers, forest rangers, sheriff’s… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/authorities-descend-new-york-town-pursuit-escapees-sweat-matt-n372471?cid=par-time-article%5F20150609 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3915303/prison-escape-willsboro-search/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3915303/prison-escape-willsboro-search/"},"headline":"Authorities Descend on New York Town in Pursuit of Prison Escapees","datePublished":"2015-06-09T21:18:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:03:57.232Z","description":"There was a specific tip from the small town of Willsboro in upstate New York","url":"https://time.com/3915303/prison-escape-willsboro-search/","keywords":["Crime","New York","Prison"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e9e4dfde1a3226d/698853d2cd1bba796d6fbbd0/richard-matt-david-sweat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e9e4dfde1a3226d/698853d2cd1bba796d6fbbd0/richard-matt-david-sweat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A heavily armed law enforcement officer patrols the edge of road during a search for two escaped killers in Boquet, N.Y. on June 9, 2015.","caption":"A heavily armed law enforcement officer patrols the edge of road during a search for two escaped killers in Boquet, N.Y. on June 9, 2015.","creditText":"Seth Wenig—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3915303/prison-escape-willsboro-search/","name":"Authorities Descend on New York Town in Pursuit of Prison Escapees"}}]}] ```