Escaped white supremacist leader captured

Published August 2, 2019 2:21pm ET



The leader of a violent white supremacist gang has been captured after escaping from an Arkansas jail earlier this week.

Wesley Gullett, 30, and another fugitive surrendered when apprehended while walking down a highway about 100 miles away from the jail they escaped. Gullett and 34-year-old Christopher Sanderson, who is not a known member of the gang, were being hunted by numerous law enforcement entities across the state after breaking out of the Jefferson County Detention Center.

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