Escaped inmate caught near Fouke

Miller County Sheriffs Deputies aid in the search for escaped inmate Jeremy Shane Pifer, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Fouke, Ark.  Officials says the 36-year-old Pifer ran away, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, from a work crew that was picking up trash along U.S. 71 in Fouke, and disappeared into a wooded area.  (AP Photo/The Texarkana Gazette, Evan Lewis)
Miller County Sheriffs Deputies aid in the search for escaped inmate Jeremy Shane Pifer, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Fouke, Ark. Officials says the 36-year-old Pifer ran away, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, from a work crew that was picking up trash along U.S. 71 in Fouke, and disappeared into a wooded area. (AP Photo/The Texarkana Gazette, Evan Lewis)

FOUKE — Arkansas prison officials say they have caught an escaped inmate who walked away from a work crew last week.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Community Correction said officers caught 35-year-old Jeremy Pifer on Wednesday hiding in a shed near Fouke in southwest Arkansas. Spokesman Dina Tyler said Pifer will go to Miller County where he will be questioned and then will be transferred to the Department of Correction.

Arkansas State Police used tracking dogs and a helicopter to search for Pifer on Tuesday after he was spotted at a convenience store.

He had been missing since Thursday, when he walked away from a work crew he was part of near Fouke.

Pifer was being held for a parole violation after being convicted in 2010 in Benton County of residential burglary.

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