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   CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 5:46 p.m. ET]   
      
   Joyce Mitchell, the New York prison tailor who authorities said   
   may have aided a pair of convicted murderers before their brazen   
   escape, has been arrested, a source with knowledge of the   
   investigation told CNN on Friday.   
      
   The specific charge is unknown at this time but Clinton County   
   Sheriff David Favro said Mitchell was to be arraigned Friday   
   evening.   
      
   [Previous story, posted at 5:27 p.m. ET]   
      
   Joyce Mitchell, the New York prison seamstress who authorities   
   said may have aided a pair of convicted murderers before their   
   brazen escape, will be arraigned on unknown charges Friday,   
   Clinton County Sheriff David Favro told CNN.   
      
   Mitchell, who authorities said has voluntarily provided useful   
   information in the six-day manhunt, could face felony charges   
   stemming from being an accessory to the escape and/or providing   
   prison contraband, officials said earlier.   
      
   Since the breakout of felons Richard Matt and David Sweat was   
   discovered Saturday, authorities have mentioned her as a   
   possible getaway driver as well as a supplier of tools used in   
   the escape. And her cell phone was used to make calls to people   
   connected to Matt, a source said.   
      
   Mitchell has told investigators that Matt made her feel   
   "special" though she didn't say she was in love with him, a   
   source familiar with the investigation said.   
      
   Her husband and prison co-worker, Lyle Mitchell, also is under   
   investigation, authorities said.   
      
   Joyce Mitchell gave hacksaw blades, drill bits and lighted   
   eyeglasses to the fugitive felons Richard Matt and David Sweat   
   before their escape, sources said.   
      
   Mitchell "provided some form of equipment or tools" to the   
   inmates while her husband "possibly could have been involved or   
   at least had knowledge" of the escape, Clinton County District   
   Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN. The information was developed   
   through interviews.   
      
   Lyle Mitchell has not been arrested or charged. Joyce Mitchell's   
   relatives have denied she did anything wrong.   
      
   Her husband worked in the maintenance department at the   
   tailoring block where his spouse was employed, Wylie said. Lyle   
   Mitchell has worked at the prison since 2005, most recently as   
   an $57,697-a-year industrial training supervisor, the same title   
   his wife held, according to state records.   
      
   The hacksaw blades and other items given to Matt were purchased   
   over the past few months, according to law enforcement sources   
   with knowledge of the investigation.   
      
   Matt and Sweat used power tools to cut through cell walls that   
   included a steel plate and sever a 24-inch steam pipe -- once to   
   get in and once more to get out -- and surfaced through a   
   manhole. Despite all the time, effort and noise likely involved,   
   authorities didn't learn anything was awry until a bed check at   
   5:30 a.m. Saturday.   
      
   Authorities strongly believe the fugitives are still together   
   after deciding to continue their escape as a pair, two law   
   enforcement sources briefed on the matter said.   
      
   A search perimeter was established, one of the sources said,   
   after an officer saw someone entering a wooded area at nightfall   
   Wednesday.   
      
   A tactical search team discovered human tracks and bloodhounds   
   picked up the scent of the felons -- leading investigators to   
   the area where the two men apparently bedded down. Wrappers   
   found at that area were consistent with food wrappers from the   
   prison commissary, according to the source.   
      
   The inmates knew Mitchell from her work tailoring clothes as an   
   industrial training supervisor at Clinton Correctional Facility   
   in Dannemora. She hasn't spoken publicly.   
      
   Prison worker in spotlight after escape   
      
   State Department of Corrections officials had received a   
   complaint about the relationship between Joyce Mitchell and one   
   of the two escapees, according to a state official. The   
   department didn't find enough evidence to support the complaint,   
   though that does not mean the inmate and prison worker weren't   
   close.   
      
   "I don't believe that the information was that there was   
   absolutely no relationship," said Wylie, the district attorney.   
      
   Her cell phone was used to call people connected to Matt,   
   according to another source, though it's not known who made   
   these calls. And New York State Police Superintendent Joseph   
   D'Amico said authorities believe she planned to pick up the   
   inmates after their escape only to change her mind at the last   
   minute.   
      
   Wylie speculated that perhaps Mitchell felt "some responsibility   
   and guilt ... and wants to help that situation or help herself."   
      
   "She does not exercise her right to request an attorney, she   
   voluntarily seeks us out," Wylie said Thursday night. "(She)   
   comes in and each day has been providing ... additional   
   information that's assisted the investigators."   
      
   Resident: 'I haven't left home in two days'   
   The information may have helped authorities figure out how the   
   killers escaped, but so far it hasn't helped locate them.   
      
   Between 2002 and 2013, state data show, almost every prison   
   escapee in New York state was captured within 24 hours and none   
   were out for more than three days. Until Matt and Sweat, who now   
   have been on the lam for six days.   
      
   Their escape sent jitters across neighboring Vermont, where   
   authorities believe they may have gone, and Canada, whose border   
   is about 20 miles from the maximum-security prison.   
      
   Still, the most intense law enforcement activity has been in   
   northeast New York, where investigators continue to search for   
   clues by painstakingly checking wooded areas and roads and   
   popping open trunks at checkpoints.   
      
   When police have tracked fugitives into the wild   
      
   The ordeal has turned life upside down for those who call this   
   rural, idyllic, out-of-the-way place home. Many people have   
   restricted their movement, while classes in the Saranac Central   
   School District -- which includes Dannemora -- were called off   
   for a second straight day Friday "to assist law enforcement and   
   to keep our buses off the routes ... where they are searching,"   
   Superintendent Jonathan Parks said.   
      
   "I haven't left home in two days, I had to call in to work today   
   because you wouldn't be able to return back home," resident   
   Brooke Lepage said. "There were constant helicopters.   
      
   "Last night they had floodlights. There was a recorded   
   (telephone) message telling us to stay in the house and make   
   sure outside lights were on."   
      
   More than 800 state, local and federal law enforcement officers   
   have descended on the area, New York State Police said. They   
   have been following more than 700 leads developed in the nearly   
   weeklong manhunt.   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/12/us/new-york-prison-break/   
      
        
      
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