GRAND RAPIDS — A man who escaped from the Northeast Regional Corrections Center was found hiding in a small crawl space at a Cohasset home with two bags of methamphetamine, while his girlfriend pretended to sleep on a couch.

That is according to new charges filed Thursday in State District Court against Michael Todd Hart, 40, of Chisholm, and Devone Michelle Shackelton, 29, of Hibbing.

Hart, who had been on the lam for two weeks, allegedly fought with deputies who tracked him to the Itasca County residence on Tuesday, refusing to exit the space under a basement stairwell, spitting on officers and attempting to kick them.

A criminal complaint also says Shackelton, who was previously arrested and released, had been found in the area near the Saginaw correctional facility hours after Har

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