Grant Hardin, the one-time Arkansas police chief who escaped from prison where he was serving sentences for murder and rape, has been recaptured, according to the Izard County Sheriff’s Office.

A former Arkansas police chief who escaped from a prison 12 days ago was apprehended about a mile and half from where he was incarcerated in northwest Arkansas. Grant Hardin, known as the "Devil in the Ozarks,

Former police chief Grant Hardin was discovered Friday less than two miles from the prison facility where he'd escaped from nearly two weeks earlier.