Arkansas authorities are looking for an escaped prisoner sentenced to life for raping a minor

Arkansas authorities are looking for an escaped inmate convicted of raping a minor and tampering with physical evidence in 2013, county records show.

Samuel Hartman, a 38-year-old inmate from the Eastern Arkansas Regional Unit, was sentenced to life in 2013 but escaped on a retail job in a field near the detention center, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

Hartman and two alleged accomplices allegedly shot corrections officers pursuing the couple.

Authorities are looking for Hartman’s 38-year-old sister, Misty Hartman, and 60-year-old mother, Linda Annette White, in connection with Hartman’s escape.

In a recording of a phone call between Samuel Hartman and White obtained by prosecutors, Hartman can be heard telling his mother that he touched the victim by “accident” and that the touching was “innocent”, according to court documents.

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“I would continue to deny everything until the end. That’s what I would do, no matter what,” White told his son in a recorded phone call, according to court records.

She also told her son that “kids, they talk all kinds of bullshit all the time.”

“I mean, you know damn well you did no such thing,” she said in a recorded call, according to court documents.

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The escapee is considered armed and dangerous and may have a beard. Hartman also has several tattoos, including a rose, a heart, a sword, the phrase “Forever & Always” and the phrase “Sam-N-Christine.”

The trio could drive a white 2021 Chevy Trail Boss with four doors, black rims and an Arkansas license plate bearing the number 398ZVY.

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Hartman has a long list of disciplinary violations ranging from multiple possession or manufacture of contraband items to battery to sexual activity between 2017 and 2020.

Authorities are asking anyone with information about Hartman or his accomplice to contact a local law enforcement agency.