Arizona, Arizona Prison Escape | featured news

Arizona fugitive John McCluskey and his alleged accomplice, Casslyn Mae Welch, are in custody, officials said Thursday. Both have been on the run since July.

A warden and a security official have resigned their posts at an Arizona state prison where three inmates escaped last month, a spokesman for the private company that runs the facility said Sunday.

With the last credible sighting on Aug. 6 of the Arizona prison inmate and a woman who helped him escape, police continue to search for the two murder suspects, focusing on western Montana and the northwestern U.S. and Canada.

The US Marshal for Arizona says an escaped inmate and his fiance may be in Arkansas. David Gonzales says a couple who robbed a store Wednesday morning in Gentry, Ark., fits the description of John McCluskey and his fiancee, Casslyn Welch.

Two men who escaped from a private Arizona prison and a woman thought to have helped them have been linked to the investigation of a couple's killing in New Mexico, authorities said Saturday.

One of three convicted killers who escaped from an Arizona prison was captured in Rifle, Colorado, authorities said today. Two other escapees remain at large.

Police were using helicopters and dogs Saturday to search for three convicted murderers who escaped from a northwest Arizona prison, kidnapped two semi-truck drivers at gunpoint and used the big rig to flee.