Arizona Prison Escapee John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch Caught

"He is a true hero," Apache County Sheriff Joseph Dedman said. "He made contact. He was out there doing his job when he saw these two fugitives."
McCluskey and Casslyn Welch were captured after a three-week manhunt that made them two of the most wanted fugitives in America and drew hundreds of false sightings.
McCluskey fled July 30 with two other inmates from a private prison in northwest Arizona and evaded authorities in at least six states before being caught Thursday evening just 300 miles east of the prison.
Authorities arrested McCluskey, 45, and his alleged accomplice Casslyn Welch, 44, at a campsite in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona.
Welch, who is McCluskey's fiancee and cousin, reached for a weapon but dropped it when she realized she was outgunned by a swarming SWAT team, said David Gonzales, U.S. marshal for Arizona.
He told authorities he had a gun in his tent and would have shot them if he had been able to reach for it.Officers apprehended McClus.

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