Two escaped inmates, including leader of white supremacist gang, recaptured in Arkansas

The leader of a white supremacist gang and a fellow inmate who escaped from an Arkansas jail have both been recaptured, according to authorities.

Wesley Gullett, 30, and Christopher Sanderson, 34, were being held in a Jefferson County jail while awaiting federal charges, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

The pair had escaped from the jail in Pine bluff earlier in the week by using "dummy bodies" in their beds to trick prison guards into thinking they were asleep, Sheriff Lafayette Woods Jr. told the Pine Bluff Commercial.

The two men had climbed onto the roof and then over a fence to escape, Woods said.

Gullett is identified in court documents as a leader of the brutal white supremacist gang New Aryan Empire. He was captured after David Dalrymple, chief of the Dover, Arkansas, marshal's office,  spotted him walking down a street just before lunch, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

Dalrymple said he recognized Gullett from a photo on his phone. He said he turned his vehicle around, raised his gun and arrested Gullett without incident.

The New Aryan Empire, spawned in the Arkansas' prison system, has developed into a widespread drug-trafficking organization.

Sanderson, the other escaped inmate, turned himself in Thursday evening to state troopers who were searching the Ozark National Forest where they suspected he might be hiding.

"As one of the troopers was driving down the road, he started yelling from the woods for somebody to come get him," U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Kevin Sanders said, according to the Democrat-Gazette. "He put his hands up, got down on his knees and said, 'I'm done.'"

The spokesman said Sanderson was extremely dehydrated and had to be taken to a hospital for treatment.

Sanderson was being held on federal gun and drug charges.