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Worker charged successful New Orleans jailbreak
Yet different of the 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jailhouse precocious past week has been captured, Louisiana State Police announced Tuesday night. Now 5 of the escapees stay astatine large.
State constabulary released a photograph of 19-year-old Corey Boyd, successful a vessel apical and t-shirt, aft being taken into custody. No details connected his seizure were instantly provided.
Boyd, who turns 20 connected May 26, is facing aggregate charges including second-degree murder.
Fifth Fugitive Arrested from OPSO Inmate Escape
Law enforcement agencies moving collectively to find the inmates who escaped from the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility connected May 16, 2025, person arrested 19-year-old Corey Boyd. pic.twitter.com/zf5jQLmvEq
Ten inmates successful each broke retired of the jailhouse connected Friday, according to the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, which runs the facility. Three of the inmates were captured aboriginal that day. A 4th was captured Monday, officials said.
It each started successful the aboriginal predawn hours of Friday morning. Several inmates were caught connected surveillance video forcing unfastened a compartment doorway astatine astir 12:22 a.m. CDT, according to the sheriff's office. Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson told reporters the inmates past breached a partition down the cell's toilet.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill talks with the media successful beforehand of the Hale Boggs Federal Building successful New Orleans, May 19, 2025, aft gathering with national officials astir the caller Orleans Parish Prison jailhouse break.
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At astir 1 a.m., the inmates were seen connected video fleeing the gathering done a adjacent loading dock, according to the sheriff's office. At astir 1:19 a.m., the radical past climbed implicit a fence, utilizing blankets to screen barbed wire, and fled crossed Interstate 10 into a neighborhood.
The flight went unnoticed by the sheriff's bureau until astir 8:30 a.m. Friday, according to the office. At the clip of the escape, nary sheriff's lawman was assigned to the country wherever the inmates initiated the jailbreak, and a civilian show stationed successful the country had stepped distant for food.
From apical left, DKenan Dennis, Gary Price, Robert Moody, Kendell Myles and Corey Boyd are seen successful a operation of photos provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office. From bottommost left, Lenton VanBuren, Jermaine Donald, Antoine Massey, Derrick Groves and Leo Tate are seen.
Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office via AP
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Tuesday that a 33-year-old attraction idiosyncratic astatine the jailhouse was arrested connected allegations helium helped the inmates escape.
The sheriff's bureau had antecedently said that 3 workers had been suspended without wage amid an interior probe into the jailhouse break.
Hutson told reporters the inmates whitethorn person received assistance from astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic wrong the sheriff's office. She besides said the bureau has spent years asking section officials for much than $5 cardinal successful funds to upgrade faulty locks connected compartment doors.
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