PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) – Authorities say they’ve captured the second fugitive from a central Arkansas jail, a day after he and a fellow inmate were noticed to be missing.
U.S. Marshals spokesman Kevin Sanders said marshals and Arkansas State Police suspected Christopher Sanderson was hiding in the Ozark National Forest near Pelsor. They were establishing a perimeter around the forest Thursday when
Sanderson called out to them and surrendered.
Sanders says the 34-year-old fugitive was severely dehydrated and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Earlier Thursday, a deputy city marshal in Dover captured Wesley Gullett near the Ozark forest. That 30-year-old fugitive is president of the New Aryan Empire, a white-supremacist group accused of violence and drug trafficking.
Both had gone missing from the Jefferson County Detention Center in Pine Bluff.
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