By Taylor Romine, Chris Boyette, CNN

(CNN) — A former small-town police chief in Arkansas escaped from prison Sunday while serving decades-long sentences for murder and rape and is still on the loose, officials said Wednesday.

Grant Hardin, 56, escaped from a state prison in northern Arkansas on Sunday afternoon, after he appears to have tried to imitate law enforcement to break out, the state’s Department of Corrections said.

Multiple agencies across the state, including state police and several sheriff’s offices, are coordinating in the hunt for Hardin.

The escape came just days after 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail on May 16. Two of those inmates remain on the run, and 13 people have been charged so far in relation to that jailbreak, including a maintenance worker wi

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