Two brothers who escaped from a Gainesville Police patrol car outside the county jail were arrested Friday after breaking into a home and stealing a truck, authorities said. No one was hurt.

Brothers James Oliver Mills, 25, and Jimmie Lee Mills, 24, led authorities on a nearly 24-hour manhunt before they were spotted by a Georgia State Patrol helicopter pilot about 5 p.m. Friday off U.S. 129 south across from Oak Grove Baptist Church, Hall County Sheriff’s Col. Jeff Strickland said.

The pilot directed sheriff’s deputies and U.S. marshals to the location, where they caught the escapees after a brief foot chase, Strickland said.

It was the fourth sighting of the escapees since they bolted from the back seat of a police car at the gates of the Hall County Jail around 7 p.m. Thursday.

Both men were handcuffed and shirtless at the time of the escape.

Police dog handlers from three law enforcement agencies searched well into the night for the brothers with help from the state patrol’s aviation unit. Late Thursday, after a possible sighting on Lee Land Road, officials concentrated their search there before calling off the effort around 2 a.m. Friday.

Around noon Friday, deputies were dispatched to Lee Land Road for a report of a burglary in progress. Witnesses told authorities they saw two men wearing handcuffs flee into the woods before deputies arrived.

Later, about 4 p.m., witnesses told authorities they saw a silver Jeep pickup truck smash through locked gates on Calvary Church Road near Poplar Springs Road and flee, Strickland said.

Authorities later received a tip that two men were seen walking along the side of U.S. 129 South, where the state patrol pilot located them, Strickland said.

The men were not in handcuffs and were wearing different clothing when they were captured, Strickland said. Authorities are not ruling out the possibility that the escapees had help, he said.

The brothers were suspects in the June 18 burglary of the Rite-Aid drug store on Browns Bridge Road but were being brought to the jail on parole violation charges after they refused to talk to police, Gainesville Police Lt. Brian Kelly said.

The circumstances of the escape remain under investigation, Kelly said.

According to Georgia Department of Corrections records, Jimmie Lee Mills served a four-year sentence for a Hall County burglary and was released from prison in February.

The men are in the Hall County jail charged with escape, burglary and theft by taking.