The Latest: 1 inmate who escaped Arkansas jail captured

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PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) – Authorities say they’ve captured the leader of a white supremacist gang who escaped from an Arkansas jail earlier this week.A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in eastern Arkansas says Wesley Gullett was captured Thursday in Pope County in western Arkansas. That’s about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Pine Bluff, which is home to the Jefferson County Detention Center where Gullett and inmate Christopher Sanderson escaped earlier this week.

Spokeswoman Allison Bragg says Gullett was arrested by Dover police, but she did have not any details of what led to the capture.

Sanderson remains at large.

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