LITTLE ROCK — A murderer who escaped from an Arkansas prison has been recaptured near Pangburn, authorities said Thursday.
Shea Wilson, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Correction, said Curtis Reese was taken back into custody in the Pangburn area. The Associated Press reported that Reese was found in a cave.
Wilson said she had no additional information about how Reese got there or what led authorities to look for him there.
Initial reports stated that Reese was found in White County, but later statements indicated he was recaptured in neighboring Cleburne County.
"He will be brought back to our prison," Wilson said. "We got him."
Reese, 33, was serving a 40-year prison sentence when he escaped Monday from the maximum-security Tucker Unit.
Authorities think Reese and another inmate escaped by hiding in an empty water tank atop a tractor-trailer. The other inmate was caught shortly after the escape.
Reese was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in Saline County in the 1997 deaths of Eric Ogden and Lance Kelloms.
Read more in tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Some information provided by The Associated Press.