Grant Hardin, a 56-year-old inmate and former police chief, is on the run after escaping the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on Sunday, May 25, according to the Arkansas Department of ...

On June 6, 2025, officials with the Stone County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Grant Hardin, who was once the police chief of a small Arkansas town, had been found and taken into custody.

His new charge of second-degree escape could add 5 to 20 years to his current sentences. How Grant Hardin escaped Hardin escaped from the North Central Unit prison in Calico Rock, Arkansas.

Hardin, a 56-year-old former police chief, escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock, Arkansas, May 25, where he was serving time for the 2017 murder of James Appleton and the 1997 rape ...

Grant Hardin, former police chief of the small town of Gateway, Arkansas, who was convicted of murder, has been recaptured after his escape from prison on May 25.

Grant Hardin, a 56-year-old inmate and former police chief, is on the run after escaping the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on Sunday, May 25, according to the Arkansas Department of ...

At the time of the killing, Hardin was working as a correctional officer at Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center in Fayetteville. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A representative for Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center in Fayetteville confirms Hardin briefly worked for them from November 21, 2016, to February 27, 2017.