Officials: Escaped Arizona prison inmate, fiancee captured in northeastern Arizona

Escaped Arizona prison inmate, fiancee captured

PHOENIX — An escaped state prison inmate and his fiancee who have been on the run for weeks were captured Thursday in northeastern Arizona, officials told The Associated Press.

Details were sketchy and Arizona authorities scheduled a news briefing late Thursday night to discuss the capture of John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, who also is the inmate’s cousin.

Officials in Apache County, Ariz., confirmed the arrests to the AP.

Arizona Corrections Department officials say Welch helped McCluskey and inmates Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick escape July 30 from a private prison facility by cutting through a security fence.

Renwick was captured on Aug. 1 in Colorado, while Province was captured eight days later in Wyoming.