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

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.

The six remaining inmates are Derrick Groves, convicted of a 2018 Mardi Gras mass shooting; Antoine Massey, who has a history of escaping and was being held on domestic abuse and vehicle theft and is wanted in St. Tammany Parish for kidnapping and rape; Lenton VanBuren, Jermaine Donald, and Corey Boyd, who are all facing second-degree murder charges; and Leo Tate, a felon convicted in federal court for firearm possession.