The Louisiana attorney general announced the arrest of a jail employee in connection with the escape of 10 New Orleans ...

New Orleans — Ten men who broke out of a New Orleans jail last week clogged a toilet to get the water shut off so that they ...

Sterling Williams, the 33-year-old maintenance worker who was jailed after ten prisoners escaped from a jail in New Orleans, ...

A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped has been arrested and accused of helping facilitate the breakout, officials said Tuesday.

Sterling Williams, a 33-year-old maintenance worker at Orleans Parish Jail, has been arrested in connection with the escape ...

Maintenance worker Sterling Williams is accused of helping 10 inmates escape from a New Orleans jail by turning off water to ...

Sterling Williams' attorney said he was not threatened into helping the inmates escape and that he was simply the maintenance worker on duty the night of the plot.

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Sterling Williams, a maintenance worker, is accused of aiding 10 inmates in a New Orleans prison escape, but his lawyer claims he was merely a tool, unaware of the plan. Authorities allege Williams ...

Ten inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail run by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, sparking a massive search for the ...