Detainee helped New Orleans inmates escape: Authorities

(NewsNation) — Louisiana authorities authorities person reported different apprehension tied to past week’s flight of 10 inmates from a New Orleans jail.

Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Friday that inmate Trevon Williams assisted with the May 16 breakout but did not connection specifics. Williams, who was not an escapee, faces 10 counts of “principal to elemental escape.”

 “We volition proceed our probe and travel each of the facts to guarantee we get accountability,” Murrill’s bureau said successful a societal media posting.

Five of the 10 inmates who slipped retired of the Orleans Parish Justice Center are inactive astatine ample and considered dangerous. Federal and section authorities person offered a combined $20,000 reward for the recapture of each fugitive.

Investigators antecedently arrested at slightest 4 people successful transportation with the jailbreak.

Maintenance idiosyncratic Sterling Williams has been accused of turning disconnected h2o to a compartment from which inmates escaped aft removing a toilet. Also, 3 women person been charged with aiding immoderate of the escaped inmates connected the outside.