US EditionNew Orleans Jail Worker Arrested as Search for Six Escaped Inmates Continue
- Sterling Williams, a maintenance employee at the Orleans Parish jail, was taken into custody on Monday for allegedly assisting in the breakout of ten prisoners from the facility the previous Friday.
- Williams helped by turning off the water to remove a toilet and allowing inmates to escape through a hole behind it, with defective locks and staffing shortages contributing to the escape.
- Following the escape early May 16, a multiagency task force formed to find fugitives, with four inmates recaptured by Monday and six still at large and considered armed and dangerous.
- Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson emphasized that it is highly unlikely for anyone to leave the facility without some form of internal assistance.
- The arrest triggered suspension of three jail employees pending investigation, and lawmakers introduced bills to require immediate public notification from jails statewide.
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‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ confident NoLa prison break was an ‘inside job’
Ten inmates escaping from Orleans Parish Justice Center is no coincidence, according to “Dog the Bounty Hunter.” Although the investigation is ongoing, Duane Chapman told Fox News he believes the escape is “definitely an inside job.” Ten inmates escaped from the New Orleans jail early Friday morning, and six remain on the run as of Tuesday evening. “What is 10 felons doing in one cell? How did they ever get out of there without anyone watching …
Maintenance worker arrested after 10 inmates escape US jail
Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office employee following the escape of 10 inmates from a New Orleans jail, the Louisiana Attorney General's office said.Sterling Williams, 33, a maintenance worker with the sheriff's office at the time of the escape, allegedly told investigators he had turned the water off in the cell from which the inmates escaped, according to the attorney general's office.Williams was placed under arrest …
New Orleans jail worker says he helped inmates escape after stabbing threat
Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office maintenance worker in connection with the escape of 10 jail inmates. Thirty-three-year-old Sterling Williams has admitted he turned the water off in a cell before the men slipped away through a hole…
New Orleans inmate who allegedly threatened maintenance worker into helping with breakout had escaped from jail before
By Cindy Von Quednow, Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — An inmate who allegedly threatened a maintenance worker into helping him and nine other men break out of a New Orleans jail had previously escaped from a detention center in North Louisiana, authorities said. Antoine Massey and another inmate broke out of the Morehouse Parish Detention Center in Collinston in 2019, before being recaptured in Lancaster, Texas, Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office Chie…
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