Orleans Parish jail inmate is captured after greater than a month on the run

An inmate who escaped from the New Orleans metropolis jail in Might and was on the run for greater than a month has been captured, authorities mentioned Friday.

Antoine Massey was taken into custody at a New Orleans residence, the Louisiana State Police mentioned in an announcement.

On the time of his escape, Massey, 33, was incarcerated on fees of home abuse involving strangulation, motorized vehicle theft and a parole violation, the company mentioned, including that further fees could also be forthcoming.

Massey will probably be taken to a safe state correctional facility exterior the world, state police mentioned in a information launch.

One inmate, Derrick Groves, stays at massive. Legislation enforcement personnel from native, state and federal businesses will proceed looking for him, the company mentioned.

Groves was convicted of second-degree homicide and tried second-degree homicide in October.

They have been amongst 10 individuals accused of eradicating a bathroom from a cell wall and fleeing via a gap at Orleans Parish Justice Heart on Might 16.

A message — “To straightforward LOL” — was seen scrawled on the wall in photographs launched by authorities.

Greater than a dozen individuals have been arrested and accused of helping of their escape, together with a jail upkeep employee whom authorities accused of reducing off the water within the cell so the inmates might take away the bathroom.

A lawyer for the upkeep employee, Sterling Williams, has denied that he performed a job of their escape. He mentioned his consumer turned off the water as a result of the bathroom in an unused handicap cell was clogged.