Authorities in Arkansas said Friday that they captured a former police chief and convicted criminal who had escaped from prison in May. Grant Matthew Hardin, 59, was apprehended at about 3 p.m. some 1.

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

Grant Hardin "should never have had a chance to escape. He’s killed somebody and he’s raped somebody," one resident said.