Former police chief Grant Hardin was discovered Friday less than two miles from the prison facility where he'd escaped from nearly two weeks earlier. A former Arkansas police chief convicted of rape and murder has been apprehended after a brazen prison escape that led to nearly two weeks on the run.

Grant Hardin, the one-time Arkansas police chief who escaped from prison where he was serving sentences for murder and rape, has been recaptured, according to the Izard County Sheriff’s Office.

A former police chief and convicted killer known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” has been captured after he escaped from prison, triggering a massive, nearly two-weeks-long manhunt in the mountains of northern Arkansas.