By Andrew DeMillo, Jeff Martin and Safiyah Riddle | Associated Press

Arkansas authorities are looking at whether a job in the prison kitchen played a role in the escape of a convicted former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks.”

Grant Hardin, 56, was housed in a maximum-security wing of the Calico Rock prison from which he escaped on Sunday by donning an outfit designed to look like a law enforcement uniform, Arkansas Department of Corrections spokesperson Rand Champion told The Associated Press on Thursday. But Hardin also held a job in the kitchen of the medium-security facility.

“His job assignment was in the kitchen, so just looking to see if that played a part in it as well,” Champion said.

The kitchen is divided into two shifts of workers, with about 25 inmates working

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