Clearly they've lost this guy; he has given them the slip and they're now flailing around without any idea where he is after having him in their grasp overnight.
Operation Barney Fife.
If he had lived in the area for any length of time he knows where to hide. There are places in every neighborhood that can conceal a lot of things. There was a storm drainage pipe in the neighborhood I grew up in. Jump the fence, enter the pipe (which was about 5 ft in diameter). I could be across town in no time. It wasn’t a nice trip, snakes, rats and spiders but if you were running from the cops after racking someone’s house at Halloween it was the way to go. This guy could be walking around Philadelphia right now.