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New Orleans Authorities Capture Ninth Jailbreak Escapee, Only One Remains Free

After Antoine Massey’s June 27 arrest, law enforcement agencies have offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to Derrick Groves, the lone fugitive.

Antoine Massey is taken into custody at a residence in New Orleans, on Friday.
Ten prisoners escaped a New Orleans jail early May 16 after breaking through a wall behind a toilet.
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Antoine Massey

Overview

  • Antoine Massey was arrested in New Orleans’s Hollygrove neighborhood by a task force including Louisiana State Police and U.S. Marshals.
  • Nine of the ten inmates who pried through a faulty cell wall and scaled a barbed-wire fence on May 16 have now been recaptured.
  • Authorities have charged at least 16 people accused of aiding the escape, including insiders who smuggled tools into the facility.
  • State and federal officials have criticized Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson over infrastructure and staffing failures at the $150 million, ten-year-old jail.
  • The Department of Homeland Security and FBI are assisting local agencies in a manhunt bolstered by facial recognition and surveillance operations.