A manhole is underway for an old Arkansas chief of policeserving a combined 80 -year -old sentence for murder And gratedAfter escaping from the prison disguised in charge of the correction.
Grant Hardin According to a press release from the Calico Rock Calico Rock Correctional Services department, broke out from the Northern Calico Rock unit around 3:40 p.m., where it has been held since 2017.
The former chief of the Gateway police department, 56, a small town near the border of Arkansas-Missouri, was spotted on surveillance images which “carried a makeshift outfit designed to imitate the police” when he fled the premises, according to officials.
A calm of the images shared by the county of Stone, in the sheriff’s office of the Arkansas, seems to show that Hardin sporting a cap and a dark colored vest, similar to the uniform carried by those responsible for the correction, about 50 minutes before its getaway while carrying wooden pallets and a box.
The Arkansas Correctional Services Department said that Hardin “did not carry a uniform from the Ministry of Correctional Services” and “that all the equipment issued by the DOC have been recorded”.
Authorities said it was “considered extremely dangerous and should not be approached.” The Arkansas State Police Service requests anyone with information on where Hardin is to immediately contact the local law.
Hardin was arrested in February 2017 and accused of first -degree murder in the death of James Appleton, 59, less than a year after having served a four -month pass as a gateway police chief in early 2016.
Appleton worked for the Gateway Water Department and spoke to his brother-in-law, the mayor of Gateway, Andrew Tillman, when he was killed on February 23, 2017, according to an arrest affidavit. The motive for murder remains a mystery.
Disgrace law enforcement officer pleaded guilty in October 2017 and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. A motivation for murder has not been provided.
Several months later in February 2018, Hardin was charged with the rape of primary school in 1997, Amy Harrison, in Rogers, north of Fayetteville.
Harrison said that she had been attacked under the threat of a firearm in a bathroom in the Frank Tillery primary school while a Sunday religious service was held in a school cafeteria. She said she was at school to prepare lessons.
DNA taken from Hardin during the 2017 investigation equaled samples levied on the clothes of rape victims, ABC 40/29 reported.
In 2019, Hardin pleaded guilty to two rape leaders and received two 25 -year -old sentences, to be purged consecutively.
