Grant Hardin, the former Arkansas police chief who escaped a Calico Rock, Ark., prison on May 25, has been captured, according to the Stone County Sheriff’s Office.

In 2019, Hardin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to concurrent 25-year prison terms on two charges after a DNA test matched him to the unsolved rape of an elementary school teacher in 1997 in Rogers.

A former Greene County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to prison time on Tuesday after pleading guilty to two counts of soliciting a minor over the Internet, according to court officials.

A deputy U.S. Marshal has said in court papers that investigators theorize that he has likely fled Arkansas, but searchers are continuing to hunt for Hardin around the prison at Calico Rock ...