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IZARD COUNTY, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Grant Hardin, a former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” is seeking to suppress statements he made to federal agents after his capture and later to officials at the Arkansas Department of Corrections, according to court documents.

Hardin, 56, faces one count of second-degree escape from a law enforcement facility. He was charged on May 27, two days after he escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock. Hardin has pleaded not guilty to that charge.

The former police chief's attorney, Bill James, filed several motions on Sept. 8, calling for anything Hardin said in June after his recapture to be kept out of court.

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