RIDGECREST — The last of two inmates who escaped from the Concordia Parish Correctional Facility last week was captured Sunday night hiding beneath a church.

Christopher Higginbotham, 22, was captured inside Evangel Temple Assembly of God in Ridgecrest Sunday after officers from the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office Special Response Team (SRT) discovered Higginbotham had been using the church’s telephone, SRT Commander John Cowan said.

Assisted by the Vidalia and Ferriday police departments, officers found the escaped inmate in a crawl space beneath the church’s pulpit that is used for running audio cable in the church.

“We found him in there in about waist-deep water,” Cowan said.

Higginbotham and fellow inmate Michael Wayne Parker, 22, were noticed missing from CPCF on Oct. 5. Prison officials believe Parker and Higginbotham climbed over one of the prison’s fences and climbed under another prison fence to escape.

Parker was arrested Tuesday at a Ridgecrest park after Cowan was able to track a cell phone Parker was known to use. Two other people were also arrested on charges of obstruction of justice, assisting after the fact to simple escape, possession of schedule II substance and possession of schedule IV substance.