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Authorities continued a manhunt Saturday for three convicted murderers who escaped a day earlier from a medium- security prison in northwestern Arizona.
The three men, who officials believe had help, were last seen headed east on Interstate 40 about 5 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.
The men escaped Friday night using pliers to cut a hole through a fence of the privately run Arizona State Prison-Kingman, said Deputy Director Charles Flanagan of the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Authorities say the men - along with a suspected accomplice, Casslyn Welch, age 44 - kidnapped two truck drivers from a Kingman truck stop and used the big rig to drive to Flagstaff.
Flagstaff police responded about 5 a.m. Saturday to the Little America Travel Center off I-40 after a call from two truck drivers who said they'd been abducted at gunpoint. The drivers were unharmed.
Authorities have been using helicopters and dogs to search for the convicts.
Records show Tracy Province, 42, has been in the Arizona Department of Corrections since January 1993 and is serving a life sentence for one count of murder and one count of robbery.
Daniel Renwick 36, was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to two 22-year prison terms.
John McCluskey, 45, had been in prison less than two weeks, arriving July 17, after a conviction for second-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharge of a firearm. He received a 15-year sentence.
This is the first time there has been an escape from the private prison in Golden Valley, Flanagan said. Management and Training Corp., based in Centerville, Utah, operates the prison.
The prisoners were noticed missing at the 9 p.m. prisoner count Friday, Flanagan said. It had been an hour since they had been accounted for.
Investigators found tracks from the prison facility leading to a perimeter fence, he said.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/artic...31arizona-prison-murderers.html#ixzz0vMvs5rZO
The three men, who officials believe had help, were last seen headed east on Interstate 40 about 5 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.
The men escaped Friday night using pliers to cut a hole through a fence of the privately run Arizona State Prison-Kingman, said Deputy Director Charles Flanagan of the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Authorities say the men - along with a suspected accomplice, Casslyn Welch, age 44 - kidnapped two truck drivers from a Kingman truck stop and used the big rig to drive to Flagstaff.
Flagstaff police responded about 5 a.m. Saturday to the Little America Travel Center off I-40 after a call from two truck drivers who said they'd been abducted at gunpoint. The drivers were unharmed.
Authorities have been using helicopters and dogs to search for the convicts.
Records show Tracy Province, 42, has been in the Arizona Department of Corrections since January 1993 and is serving a life sentence for one count of murder and one count of robbery.
Daniel Renwick 36, was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to two 22-year prison terms.
John McCluskey, 45, had been in prison less than two weeks, arriving July 17, after a conviction for second-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharge of a firearm. He received a 15-year sentence.
This is the first time there has been an escape from the private prison in Golden Valley, Flanagan said. Management and Training Corp., based in Centerville, Utah, operates the prison.
The prisoners were noticed missing at the 9 p.m. prisoner count Friday, Flanagan said. It had been an hour since they had been accounted for.
Investigators found tracks from the prison facility leading to a perimeter fence, he said.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/artic...31arizona-prison-murderers.html#ixzz0vMvs5rZO