KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Prison officials said that escaped inmate John Manard and his alleged accomplice were captured Friday night in Tennessee.

Authorities said they captured John Manard, 27, who escaped from the Lansing, Kan., Correctional Facility on Feb. 12. U.S. Marshals said they also arrested 48-year-old Toby Young, who is accused of helping Manard escape in a crate used to transport dogs in a prison animal training program.

The pair were arrested at about 7:30 p.m. CST after a brief chase on Interstate 75 near Sweetwater, Tenn., Kansas City's KMBC-TV reported.

Manard was first spotted Friday at a bookstore in Chattanooga, Tenn., driving a 1997 Chevy pickup truck, authorities told a newspaper.

Officers then followed Manard for almost 60 miles northeast on Interstate 75 toward Knoxville, Tenn.

"He made an effort to run me off the road, and we called in the dogs," said Tony Crawford, a chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service. "We knew we had the right man then."

Manard reached Loudon County, Tenn., just southeast of Knoxville, before he turned around and eventually crashed his vehicle while trying to cross a wooded median in north McMinn County.

Manard and Young suffered minor injuries. Young was taken to a local hospital as a precaution, according to authorities.

Marshals said Manard and Young will be held in a Tennessee jail until they are extradited to Kansas. Manard will be prosecuted for aggravated escape from custody, and Young is charged with aiding and abetting escape and aiding a felon.

"It's great news," Corrections Department spokesman Bill Miskell said. "Obviously, this is the outcome we were hoping for. I think there has always been a concern that anyone in the company of John Manard would be in danger. I don't think that has ever been far from anyone's mind."

Manard was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, aggravated robbery and possession of firearms in the 1996 killing of an Overland Park man during a carjacking.

Young was the head of the Safe Harbor Dog Training program at the Lansing prison. Manard was one of the dog trainers in the program.

Young's relatives told KMBC-TV that they had been notified that she was in custody, but they refused comment.

Friday, the corrections officer who failed to search the Safe Harbor van in which Manard escaped was fired for not following proper security procedures.

Prison officials have said guards' familiarity with Young helped her pull off the escape.

Authorities have said the daring escape was carefully planned, that the two had more than $10,000 in cash and two semiautomatic weapons, and that they bought hair coloring and an electric razor that may have been used to alter appearances.

Young's van was found Feb. 14 at a Bonner Springs, Kan., storage facility she had rented, 10 miles south of the prison.