Judge piles years on Arizona escapee

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) - A Mohave County judge has sentenced an inmate who escaped from a state prison near Kingman, Ariz., last summer to more than 38 years in prison.

The judge acknowledged Friday the sentencing meant little for a man already serving life for prior crimes.

Tracy Province pleaded guilty earlier this month to state felony charges of escape, kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated assault and misconduct with weapons.

Province will be sent to New Mexico after he is sentenced on the Arizona charge. He faces capital murder and carjacking charges in the deaths of an Oklahoma couple there.

Province was captured without incident in northwestern Wyoming in August after he dropped by for Sunday services at a church and was recognized by a woman who chatted with him.

He had been serving a life sentence for murder and robbery when he escaped.

(Inmate John McCluskey and his firlfriend, Casslyn Mae Welch, who is accused of aiding the escape, also face federal murder charges in the killing of the Oklahoma couple near Santa Rosa several days after the escape.)