Northern border fortified in search for Ariz. Escapee

Border agents stopped vehicles leaving the

U. S. and police beefed up their patrols in the small towns near Glacier National Park as author i t ies focused thei r search for an escaped convict and his suspected accomplice on both sides of the Montana- Canada border.

Despite the tightened security, there are many backroads and other ways for A r i z o n a e s c a p e e J o h n McCluskey and his suspected accomplice, Casslyn Welch, to slip across the border and into Cana d a , Gl a c i e r Co unt y Undersheri f f Jef f Fauque said.

"There are no border sensors, no border patrolmen or (Royal C...