Multiple sources tell NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley that three agents from the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) apprehended Hardin on Friday.

New photos from the U.S. Border Patrol show Grant Hardin shortly after being captured less than two miles from North Central Unit after a 12-day manhunt.

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.

GOULD, Arkansas — On June 6, the nearly two-week long manhunt for escaped Arkansas prisoner Grant Hardin ended. Hardin had escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on May 25 while serving sentences for murder and rape. He was found by Arkansas law enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol just over a mile from the prison.

A former Arkansas police chief who escaped from a prison 12 days ago was apprehended about a mile and half from where he was incarcerated in northwest Arkansas.

Hardin escaped the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on Sunday, May 25, in broad daylight, according to ADC. His escape unsettled communities across the state due to his intense criminal history involving rape and murder. Hardin was also a former police chief and had an extensive background in law enforcement.

The manhunt for Grant Hardin, a convicted killer and rapist who escaped from an Arkansas prison 11 days ago, has intensified as authorities fear he may be hidin