Former Gateway, Arkansas police chief Grant Hardin escaped from jail Saturday whereas serving a 50 and 30-year sentences for rape and first diploma homicide. In accordance with authorities, Hardin wore a selfmade police uniform to flee, wheeling provides although the yard to idiot guards.
Excerpt from the New York Post:
A disgraced ex-Arkansas police chief who was serving 80 years in jail for rape and a shotgun-to-the-head execution escaped from a high-security jail disguised as a cop.
Grant Hardin, 56, the previous police chief of Gateway close to the Arkansas-Missouri border, was seen on safety cameras strolling out of the North Central Unit jail, in Calico Rock, wearing what seems to be a selfmade regulation enforcement uniform on Sunday afternoon.
Hardin, who is taken into account extraordinarily harmful, used the outfit to sneak by the managed gate whereas inconspicuously pushing a cart filled with utility supplies, based on the Stone County Sheriff’s Workplace.
…In 2017, Hardin pleaded responsible to the homicide of James Appleton, 59, a Gateway water division worker who was shot within the head at point-blank vary with a shotgun whereas on the cellphone together with his brother-in-law, who was on the time the mayor.
…Whereas incarcerated, Hardin’s DNA was examined and linked to a 1997 rape case that noticed an elementary college instructor sexually assaulted at gunpoint inside a faculty toilet whereas a neighborhood church service occured down the corridor.
Hardin pleaded responsible to rape and kidnapping in 2018, with a choose sentencing him to a further 50 years in jail.
Assertion and updates by the Arkansas Division of Corrections, “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – CALICO ROCK – On Sunday, Could 25, at roughly 3:40 p.m., inmate Grant Hardin, ADC #168541, escaped from the North Central Unit. Anybody with details about inmate Hardin’s whereabouts ought to contact native regulation enforcement instantly.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –
CALICO ROCK – On Sunday, Could 25, at roughly 3:40 p.m., inmate Grant Hardin, ADC #168541, escaped from the North Central Unit.
Anybody with details about inmate Hardin’s whereabouts ought to contact native regulation enforcement instantly. pic.twitter.com/RZZ8I2hMc4— Arkansas Division of Corrections (@ADCPIO) May 25, 2025
“UPDATE 11:30 p.m.: CALICO ROCK – As of 11:30 PM on Sunday, Could 25, the seek for inmate Grant Hardin, ADC # 168541, is ongoing. The search is a joint effort together with the Division of Corrections, Arkansas State Police, and native and state regulation enforcement places of work…It has been decided that Hardin was carrying a makeshift outfit designed to imitate regulation enforcement when he escaped the North Central Unit. He was not carrying a Division of Corrections uniform, and all DOC-issued tools has been accounted for.”
It has been decided that Hardin was carrying a makeshift outfit designed to imitate regulation enforcement when he escaped the North Central Unit. He was not carrying a Division of Corrections uniform, and all DOC-issued tools has been accounted for.
— Arkansas Division of Corrections (@ADCPIO) May 26, 2025
