Louisiana authorities captured on Friday one of many 10 males who escaped from a New Orleans jail six weeks in the past and who police say launched movies on social media whereas nonetheless on the run.
Antoine Massey, 33, was taken into custody at a residence in New Orleans about 2 miles from the jail, stated New Orleans Police Division Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick.
“He really walked out of a house peacefully,” Kirkpatrick stated. “He peacefully gave as much as regulation enforcement who had surrounded the home.”
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson stated she had obtained a tip Friday morning and instantly notified different regulation enforcement authorities, who arrested Massey by midafternoon.
Louisiana State Police Superintendent Robert Hodges stated authorities have been nonetheless investigating how Massey was capable of keep on the residence the place he was recaptured.
“It’s fairly apparent over the final six weeks to stay a fugitive that lengthy, he had help, he had assist,” Hodges stated.
Authorities had lately investigated social media posts by a person who recognized himself as Massey and earlier this month raided a New Orleans residence the place they believed the movies have been produced however didn’t discover him.
“Nice work by all our regulation enforcement companions who’ve been working so exhausting for this final result,” Louisiana Lawyer Normal Liz Murrill stated after Massey’s seize Friday. “Yet another to go!”
Authorities are nonetheless looking for convicted assassin Derrick Groves.
Police beforehand captured the opposite eight escapees following the Could 16 jailbreak, one of many largest in latest US historical past.
Authorities stated the lads yanked open a defective cell door contained in the New Orleans jail, squeezed by way of a gap behind a bathroom, scaled a barbed-wire fence and fled into the darkish.
The boys’s absence wasn’t found till a morning headcount, hours after they bolted for freedom. Authorities discovered a message drawn across the gap the lads used to flee: an arrow pointing on the hole and the phrases “To Simple LoL.”
Officers have pointed to a number of safety lapses within the jail, however authorities stay adamant that the lads additionally had possible had assist.
A upkeep employee on the jail was arrested for allegedly serving to the lads escape by turning off the water to the bathroom the place the outlet was reduce behind.
His lawyer says he has denied knowingly aiding them.
Massey confronted fees of rape, kidnapping, home violence involving strangulation and violation of a protecting order, authorities in close by St. Tammany Parish stated.
In Orleans Parish, he confronted fees of motorized vehicle theft and home battery.
Murrill stated Massey will face further fees for his position within the escape.
A lady police recognized as being in an on-again, off-again relationship with Massey was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice and as a principal to aggravated escape, court docket information present. Authorities stated the girl knew of Massey’s escape plans beforehand, communicated with him afterward and misled authorities.
A $50,000 reward stays for ideas resulting in Groves’ recapture, authorities stated.
