A man who escaped an Arkansas prison last year via jet ski was captured at a West Virginia hotel on Tuesday (August 29).
Samuel Paul Hartman, 39, was arrested along with his wife, his mother, and his mother’s boyfriend at a hotel in Lewisburg. Both women are suspected of helping Hartman escape prison in August 2022 from the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys.
Hartman was on work detail in a field near the prison when a truck pulled up, and Hartman ran toward it. Bullets were fired from the truck at a corrections officer as they escaped and ran toward two jet skis staged near the Mississippi River.
Hartman, 39, was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for a rape conviction out of Franklin County, Arkansas. Charges for Hartman, his wife, and his mother were not revealed, but Hartman’s mom’s boyfriend, Rodney Trent, 52, is facing charges of harboring a sex offender and of assisting Hartman and the two women. They are expected to be extradited to West Virginia as soon as possible.
Source: nypost.com
