PICTURED: Hero K-9 is seen with escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante moments after he sniffed him out, bit him and helped officers capture him – after fugitive evaded them for 14 days

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The hero K-9 that subdued escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante was pictured moments after helping end the two-week manhunt that struck terror into a Pennsylvania community.

Cavalcante, 34, was serving a life sentence for the murder of his ex-girlfriend at the Chester County Prison, 30 miles west of Philadelphia, when he escaped on August 31 by crab-walking up a wall

About 25 officers were able to surprise him as they surrounded him on Wednesday morning, but Cavalcante, who was wearing a Philadelphia Eagles sweatshirt, tried to escape again by crawling through underbrush with the rifle he stole from a home he broke into on Monday. 

Officials then released a police dog to capture the killer. The dog bit him on the scalp and he was treated for the injury at the scene, police said. After a bloodied Cavalcante was captured, the SWAT officers in the search team paraded him like a trophy…

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