Jacob Allen Morley, the convicted murderer who escaped from a Tennessee prison, is in custody, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.

He was captured more than a week after he escaped on Oct. 25 from the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville — a town of about 3,500 people roughly 100 miles north of Memphis — and, according to authorities, stole a truck that was later found abandoned in Illinois.

The TBI announced that Morley was captured near Kansas City, Missouri, and was in custody Tuesday.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a statement that it received information from the TBI at around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday that Morley may have been traveling west on Interstate 70 near Independence. Morley’s vehicle was located by Flock Safety cameras, the statement said.

Officers from multiple agencies moved into the area, as it “was believed the suspect was armed with multiple weapons,” the statement said.…