US Marshal says fugitives may be in Arkansas [McCluskey & girlfriend, AZ escapee]

AP ^ | 11 Aug 2010 | Matt Volz

[FourPeas]

PHOENIX — The U.S. Marshal for Arizona says an escaped inmate and his fiance may be in Arkansas.

David Gonzales says a couple who robbed a store Wednesday morning in Gentry, Ark., fits the description of John McCluskey and his fiancee, Casslyn Welch.

Gentry is in northwest Arkansas, near Bentonville, where Welch's mother lives.

Gonzales says they are trying to obtain surveillance film from the robbery.

McCluskey and Welch have eluded authorities since he and two other inmates escaped from an Arizona prison on June 30. McCluskey and Welch were last seen in Montana near the Canadian border.

[FourPeas]

ping

[OB1kNOb]

For my fellow Arkansan FReepers reference.....just in case........

[pissant]

Hope they don’t put them in an AR jail. Huck would race down there to see they are released.

[dfwgator]

The question is which meth lab in Arkansas are they near? There are literally a million places they could hide.

[OB1kNOb]

Ping

[OB1kNOb]

I hope it’s not the one just up the road from us. The sheriff will never look there................. ;-(

[ConservativeMind]

Hmm. Maybe this is why:

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ar/little-rock/crime/

[machogirl]

there are good reasons for not marrying your first cousin.

[Red_Devil 232]

If they have indeed made their way to Arkensas you know there were other crimes commited along the way.

[FourPeas]

Also from here:

John Charles McCluskey is now believed to have black hair and a black beard, while Casslyn Mae Welch has dyed her hair blonde, according to a bulletin from the Marshals office Wednesday.

[FourPeas]

Except...they’re no where near Little Rock.

[FourPeas]

You mean besides the fact that all of them are the same sex as I am? :0

[OB1kNOb]

John Charles McCluskey is now believed to have black hair and a black beard, while Casslyn Mae Welch has dyed her hair blonde, according to a bulletin from the Marshals office Wednesday.

Thanks for the heads up, FRiend.

McCloskey

[FourPeas]

Addt'l info from here:

The Benton County Sheriff's Office released a description shortly after noon Wednesday. A release stated the man is 35-40 years old, approximately 5 feet 2 or 5 feet 3 inches tall and wearing a baseball cap, jeans and dark-colored t-shirt, and has a day or two growth beard.

Police said the woman is between the ages of 35 and 40 with reddish-brown hair wearing a pony tail. She is 5 feet tall with a petite figure.

Authorities said the couple might also have a blue-green purse with short shoulder straps that was taken from the Kut and Kurl salon.

[dynachrome]

Be careful answering the door, infidel.

[Perdogg]

Maybe she’s really good in bed.

[Mr. Jazzy]

The chief investigator on the trail was not amused:

[EDINVA]

I can hear the howls of the ACLU and some of my fellow FReepers were the various Depts of Correction to insert tracking devices that could be removed or deactivated upon release in convicted violent felons’ ear lobes.

No, I haven’t thought it through, but the prisoners’ pain or inconvenience somehow doesn’t seem equivalent to the deaths of escapees’ victims like the camping couple in NM, or their family’s grief.

[DCBryan1]

Armed and ready FRiend.