Fourth inmate recaptured, New Orleans jail worker arrested after helping 10 inmates escape

Just the News ^ | 5/20/25 | Natalia Mittelstadt

[CFW]

One of six inmates still at-large after a New Orleans jailbreak last week has been captured, and a jail worker who allegedly helped the inmates escape has been arrested, the Louisiana attorney general's office announced Tuesday.

Sterling Williams, 33, an Orleans Parish jail maintenance worker, was arrested after admitting to helping the 10 inmates escape Friday. He is charged with 10 counts of principal to simple escape and one count of malfeasance in office.

Williams said he turned off the water to the cell from which the inmates escaped, allowing them to dismantle a toilet and flee.

Williams said one of the inmates, Antoine Massey, who has a history of escaping, threatened to shank him if he did not turn off the water, anonymous law enforcement sources told local TV station Fox 8.

The inmates, including the four already captured, escaped from the Orleans Justice Center just after midnight Friday but were not discovered missing until a routine headcount at 8:30 a.m.

Authorities say the inmates, after removing the toilet and breaching a wall behind it, escaped from the jail through a loading dock door, before scaling fences and crossing the I-10 highway.

Louisiana State Police has identified the fourth inmate caught as Gary Price, who was charged with attempted first-degree murder and domestic abuse before his escape. He was arrested in New Orleans.

[CFW]

After watching the post-escape press conference, I'm surprised prisoners don't escape from the NO prison every day. DEI incompetence was on display from every single department represented on the stage.

Of course, the inmates themselves are pretty stupid as well. I saw a video yesterday where LEOs arrested one of the escapees. He was sleeping on a town bench, just snoozing away and officers walked up and cuffed him.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

”He is charged with 10 counts of principal to simple escape and one count of malfeasance in office.”

That is EXACTLY what we need to charge all the corrupt judges who aid illegals with!

[volare737]

Lots of ‘play cousins’ helping there.

[CFW]

I read that several of the attorneys in the DA’s office have taken their families and left town. There is apparently one of the escapees (murdered two) that all of them are terrified of coming after them.

[gloryblaze]

Prisoner threatened to stab worker ...

[eaglestar]

Sterling you weren’t forced to do anything. The only thing you should have been forced to do is to report the threat.