A former police chief in Arkansas, a convicted rapist and murderer serving an 80-year sentence, may have posed in a makeshift law enforcement uniform to escape a prison on Sunday, officials announced.

Grant Hardin, the former police chief of the tiny town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock, where he has been held since 2017.

Ex-Arkansas police chief, serving time for murder and rape, escapes prison Grant Hardin, a former police chief of Gateway, Arkansas, escaped on Sunday from a state prison where he was serving ...

A former small-town police chief in Arkansas escaped from prison Sunday while serving decades-long sentences for murder and rape and is still on the loose, officials said Wednesday.

In the summer of 2023, officials reported the initiative to outfit all of its troops with body-worn cameras and to upgrade the mobile video recorders in patrol vehicles. Start the day smarter.

To save money, state police opted to put a bank of cameras at each station for troopers to take out and turn back in while they are working instead of giving one to each trooper.

Hardin became police chief of Gateway, a town of about 450 people, in 2016. Virtually overnight, people in the community described in the 2023 HBO documentary "Devil in the Ozarks" a dramatic shift.

A former police chief in Arkansas, a convicted rapist and murderer serving an 80-year sentence, may have posed in a makeshift law enforcement uniform to escape a prison on Sunday, officials announced.