(NewsNation) — The search continues for seven escaped inmates aft 10 men escaped from New Orleans jailhouse past week, and erstwhile FBI cause and spouse astatine PAX Group, Michael Harrigan, says that the task of capturing those connected the tally volition lone get much strenuous with each passing day.
"As clip goes on, it becomes much hard successful immoderate ways," Harrigan said connected NewsNation Now. "What investigators are going to beryllium doing is looking astatine friends, associates, and household members to astir apt find retired wherever these individuals person gone and whitethorn beryllium sheltering."
Harrigan believes that the fugitives are improbable to beryllium walking the streets aimlessly and are apt determination laying low.
"They are going to travel those leads and beryllium looking astatine the quality files astatine the jail," helium said.
The imaginable for the prisoners to spell crossed authorities lines is besides a concern, but Harrigan says it's hard to archer if it's happened successful the days since the escape.
"It truly comes down to the individuals," helium acknowledged. "Which of these suspects, however galore are from New Orleans, had heavy ties there? How galore had connections extracurricular the authorities oregon extracurricular the parish, determination oregon neighboring parishes crossed the state? It each comes down to each idiosyncratic inmate, due to the fact that it appears the flight was coordinated. They each worked together. But it doesn't needfully mean they were moving together."
Harrigan added that determination is simply a content that the prisoners volition beryllium caught soon and that authorities and section governments mightiness person to instrumentality a agelong look astatine situation protocols to forestall this benignant of incidental from happening again.