As the search for Grant Hardin, a former police chief and inmate who escaped from prison in Calico Rock, Arkansas, continues, officials are searching vehicles.

A former Arkansas police chief serving multiple life sentences for murder and rape has escaped from prison, sparking a huge multi-agency manhunt. Grant Hardin, who once served as the chief of police in Gateway, Arkansas, escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on Sunday, according to state corrections officials.

Authorities are searching for escaped inmate Grant Hardin, a former police chief, who fled the North Central Unit on Sunday.