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 ...

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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.

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.

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.