By Maura Grunlund
Staten Island Advance
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Escaped parolee Hector Calo was arrested with a loaded firearm and drugs early Friday in the Bronx, according to police.
His apprehension ended the search for the 41-year-old suspect who was the subject of a large NYPD manhunt that began Thursday morning in Stapleton.
He was taken into custody, without incident, at 1:15 a.m. in the Bronx, according to a statement from the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI).
Calo’s 9 mm handgun was in close proximity of a child less than 17 years old when the suspect was found in an apartment of a person he knew in the Bronx. Drugs also were discovered in the apartment, a DCPI spokesman said.
Police charged Calo with criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a weapon as in a loaded firearm, escape from custody and acting in a manner injurious to a child less than age 17, the police statement said.
A police spokesman was unable to provide details about the age of the child, the relationships between the people in the apartment, the types of drugs recovered or how officers tracked Calo to the Bronx.
Calo escaped from his residence at 283 St. Paul’s Ave. while in the custody of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) at about 6:45 a.m. Thursday, according to a statement from the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI).
The parolee was handcuffed behind his back at the time of the incident, police said.
“During a home visit to his approved residence, parolee Hector Calo fled from parole officers and other DOCCS staff,” said a statement from Thomas Mailey, director of public information for DOCCS.
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