Authorities say they have captured an accused rapist who escaped Saturday from the Arkansas State Hospital in Little Rock.
James Barrett was apprehended at approximately 3 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of a Motel 6 at 1003 Union Ave. in Memphis, Tenn., U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Kevin Sanders said.
The U.S. Marshals Service Eastern Arkansas Fugitive Task Force was asked to assist in locating the 34-year-old after he escaped shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday from the hospital just east of War Memorial Stadium.
Barrett had been held there since October while awaiting trial for a rape charge in Faulkner County.
It was not immediately clear how he escaped.
The Marshals Service tracked him from Little Rock to downtown Memphis and found him in a vehicle with an unidentified female, Sanders said.
Barrett will be extradited to Faulkner County where he will be charged with third-degree escape, said Perry L. Wyse, chief of the Arkansas State Hospital Police Department.
Records show he will also face a failure to appear charge in Faulkner County, where he was due in court Monday for a hearing on the rape charge.
An investigation is ongoing.