The habit does not make the monk. Sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder and rape, Grant Hardin, former police chief of the small city of Gateway in Arkansas, escaped from the prison this Sunday, May 25, pretending to be a member of the prison staff.
At the time of his escape, the detainee had “an improvised outfit designed to imitate the police,” said state correctional services officials.
Condemned by murder and violation
According to the US news agency Associated Press, Grant Hardin served a 30 -year sentence in the North Center Unit in Calico Rock, where he had been arrested since 2017.
At that time, he had declared himself guilty of the murder for James Appleton’s firearm, 59, an employee of the city’s waters. The victim had been found in a car. Grant Hardin was also sentenced to 50 years in prison for the violation of a primary school teacher, dating from 1997.
Research still in progress
According to CBS News, the man escaped around 3:40 pm this Sunday. “He did not carry a uniform of the Penitentiary Administration Department and all the teams provided by the department have been found,” authorities told the media, without specifying the means used by the prisoner to get out of his cell.
“Any person with information about the place where Hardin can have to contact us immediately,” police asked on social networks.
Currently, the investigation is underway to find the detainee, carried out jointly by the Department of Correctional Services, the Arkansas State Police and the local police services.
Source: BFM TV
