LEE COUNTY, Ark. — In a WREG Investigators exclusive, we find out new information about a prison break in Arkansas that involved metal armor plates, guns, jet skis, and a lot of money.
It happened in August 2022 when an inmate escaped a work crew in eastern Arkansas.
Samuel Hartman was serving a life sentence in prison in 2013 for raping a 14-year-old girl.
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WREG Investigators obtained the case file that states Hartman had alerted his mom and wife that he would be on a work detail in a field near the prison, which was 17 miles from Forrest City…