May 29, 2025

Manhunt!

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode Jim Chapman provides the details surrounding the "still on the run" inmates that escaped a New Orleans Jail. Jim also touches on a nearly concurrent escape in Tangipahoa Parish, which raises critical concerns about operational failures in Louisiana's correctional facilities. Additionally, Jim discusses the alarming case in Arkansas involving a former police chief, convicted of rape and murder who escaped prison four days ago and is still on the run.

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Chapters
04:13 New Orleans Escapee Updates
08:41 Multiple arrest Made For Those Assisting New Orleans Escapee's
15:21 The Backgrounds of Antoine Massey and Derrick Groves
17:57 More Jailbreaks in Louisiana: This Time Tangipahoa Parish Jail
26:53 A Disturbing Escape In Arkansas of Former Police Chief
30:20 Nationwide Escape Trends Tick Upward

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A wall street line, shackle change, Oh we someome, girdie,

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it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's

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been a tentery juice as the huge stream game Wrangle three.

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I'm here be by me to die.

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Inside these walls, inside the wild.

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And when the girl as I'm hey everyone, and welcome

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back to Bloody Angola, a podcast one and forty two

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years in the making, the complete story of America's bloodiest prison.

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I'm Jim Chapman, and today we're gonna call this episode

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man Hunt. The reason for that is if you joined

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us last week on Bloody Angola major escape in New Orleans,

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ten prisoners went on the run, I'm gonna give you

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an update on that. We're gonna talk about another escape

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that took place just a week after this escape in Louisiana.

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Unbelievable story there, and even another escape a couple of

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states over. So let's get into it, and I'm gonna

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refer to some articles today as we move along, and

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I'm gonna catch you up first on the New Orleans

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prison escape situation. I'm referring to this article in front

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of me, and it's headlined arrest mounts for those helping

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New Orleans prison escapees with two still on the run.

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That's right. The last time that I left you, there

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were five escapees still on the run. That is now

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down to two, and all during this time people have

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been getting arrested for aiding in a betting which I

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played you the governor's statement he wouldn't joking around when

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he said, if you're helping these folks, you're going down.

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And that's exactly what happened for many people. Let's get

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into the article. A massive manhunt that began for ten

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escapees was down to two on Tuesday, while authorities turn

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their attention toward people aiding the inmates who literally broke

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out of a New Orleans jail eleven days ago. Louisiana

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State Police announced Monday that three more escapees had been

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nabbed in the Louisiana and Texas areas and pledged to

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pursue every lead until the two who remain at large

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are once again in custody. Police also announced the arrest

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of six people accused of aiding the escapee. Quote. Individuals

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who choose to assist, conceal, or harbor these fugitives are

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violating the law and will be arrested regardless of the

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level of assistance given or where they are found. That

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from Louisiana State Police Sergeant Capes to Gaul. She went

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on to say, harboring fugitives threatens the safety of our

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communities and it will not be tolerated. The latest inmates

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to be recaptured were Lenton van Buren twenty six, who

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was taken into custody in Baton Ridge, Louisiana by local

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police there, and Leo Tate, who is thirty one, as

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well as Jermaine Donald forty two.

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Now.

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The latter two were arrested in Walker County, Texas by

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the Texas Department of Public Safety. And look, there is

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a lot of video out there from the car chase

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that ensued to catch these guys. I suggest you go

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check that out if you're arrested. All three of these

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individuals are expected to face additional charges related to escape quote.

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This is a clear example of how effective collaboration and

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open communication between agencies can lead to successful outcomes. That

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also from the State Police spokesman. Six more have been

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accused of eighty escapees. At least thirteen people have been arrested,

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including an inmate who did not flee for collaborating with

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the escapees. Six arrest were announced Monday, including Diamond White

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on charges that include principal to aggravated escape and obstruction

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of justice for helping Antoine Massey. According to state police,

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and we'll get into him a little bit more later.

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Antoine Massey remains at large. Other announced Monday include Lenika

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Van Buren twenty eight, Taysha Randolph twenty seven, Patricia Van

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Buren eighteen, Angel McKay forty one, and Lenton Van Buren Senior,

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who is forty eight, all charges of accessory after the fact,

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accused of aiding Van Buren. All were booked into the

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Plackaman's Parish jail. Trayvon Williams, an inmate who did not escape,

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was charged with ten counts of being principled to simple escape.

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That from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrell. The same day,

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New Orleans Police Department said it arrested Emmitt Weber on

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a charge of accessory after the fact too simple escape.

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Weber was one of four more were people questioned after

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investigators comb through surveillance footage connecting crucial dots in the

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search quote, as I promise we initiated our investigation and

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we will hold absolutely everyone who contributed any role to

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the prison break in New Orleans accountable. That from Liz Murrell.

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Others arrested in connection with the prison escape include jail

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maintenance workers Sterling Williams who is thirty three, Casey Smith,

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Connie Whedon, Courteeny Harris, and Corvona Te Baptiste Smith. They

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are all women and they are accused of being contact

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with and helping the escapees. Sterling Williams is charged with

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being a principal to simple escape and malfeasance in office.

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Muriell said. Williams admitted that he complied with the demand

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from one of the inmates to shut off water and

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miss Sell and of course I told you about that

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last week now. Michael Kennedy, a lawyer for Stirling Williams,

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said that his client argues he didn't know the men

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were planning to escape and shut off the water because

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an inmate had clogged a toilet, and of course he

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changed that story. Initially he was threatened to turn off

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the water, threaten to get Shanks, specifically Van Bieren, who

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has been in custody on second degree murder in connection

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with the twenty twenty one fatal shooting was caught with

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the help of the tip from the public. He was

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apprehended while sitting on a bench near a department store

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in the city of Baton Rouge. Donald and Tate were

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arrested the same day in Huntsville, Texas, after leading law

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enforcement officers from several agencies on a high speed chase. Donald,

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who before the escape, was being held on charges that

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included second degree murder, now faces additional charges of escape

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and resisting. Tate, who had been held on burglary and

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obstruction charges, must now face aggravated escape and escape from

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custody charges. And then the article gets into what prison

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escape ease are still on the run, and of course

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the search continued for Massey, who is thirty two, and

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Derrick Groves, who is twenty seven. Massy is charged with

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domestic abuse involving strangulation and theft of a motor vehicle.

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There is also a warrant for his arrest in Saint

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Tammany Parish for second degree rape, second degree kidnapping, domestic

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abuse involving strangulation, and violation of a protective order involving

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battery stemming from an incident in November. Groves was convicted

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of two counts of second degree murder in two counts

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of attempted second degree murder in October in connection with

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a shooting during Marty Gras in twenty eighteen. Groves has

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been awaiting sentencing on manslaughter charges since October. Then it

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goes into how they escaped. Of course I told you

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about that, and it's interesting that it notes a twenty

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thousand dollars reward per inmate leading to information for the

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arrest and the inmate that was caught in Baton Rouge

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sitting on that bench. Someone called in a tip that

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they never claimed the twenty grand at least not yet.

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Orleans Parish DA Jason Williams said he's worried about the

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safety of his staff. He said the escape appears to

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be an inside job and that he is very concerned

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for the safety of his staff. He said he's especially

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worried for two colleagues who tried the second degree murder case.

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He in his Groves one of the two remaining escapees,

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and of course I told you that was a big

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risk with them being out, is they may try to

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start giving people payback. In their mind, the two colleagues

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have left the state for their safety. According to District

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Attorney Jason Williams, he would not say whether his office

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has received any credible threats. Quote, they're young, They've got families,

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and they don't deserve to be in a situation. Some

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victims and witnesses in the cases against escapees also wanted

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to be relocated. William said he worries the dangers following

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the escape will chill people's willingness to testify and serve

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on juries in other cases, and he has legitimate gripe

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there now. As more news began to come out, another

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article was released and it headlined a promising tip thiszles

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as the main hunt for a convicted killer in a

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chronic escapee intensifies. A double murder and repeat escapee have

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a vaded capture for rom as two weeks, leading authorities

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to believe the fugitives could be anywhere in the United States.

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As of Wednesday morning, Antwine Massey and Derrick Groves were

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still on the run, twelve days after they and eight

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other inmates broke out of the Orleans Justice Center in

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New Orleans. The eight other fugitives have been caught, mostly

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in New Orleans, but two of the most recent arrest

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happened in Texas. Now several states are involved in the

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main hunt for Massy and Groves. And just to catch

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you up on where these eight escapees have been caught.

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The Keenan Dennis was captured in New Orleans on May sixteenth,

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the same day Robert Moody was captured, and the same

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day Kendall Miles was captured. They were all caught in

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New Orleans. Gary Price was captured three days later on

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May nineteenth in New Orleans. Corey Boyd captured the following day,

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May twentieth in New Orleans. Jermaine Donald was captured in

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Walker County, Texas, as was Leo Taate Senior. They were together.

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They led police on a chase. This was on May

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twenty six, so they actually got across state lines. Lenon

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van Gearn Junior was captured in Baton Rouge, sitting on

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that bench in front of that store. That was also

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on May twenty six. And of course Derrick Groves and

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Antoine Massey's still at large. And look, they have people

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out there right now taking bats on who's gonna get

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caught first, On who's gonna get caught last because eventually

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they'll get caught, and may take time, may take years,

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but eventually they will get caught. Now continue on with

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this article. Quote, we are currently at an impass on

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figuring out where these two are, Deputy US Marshall Brian

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Fair said, and you definitely don't want to hear somebody's

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in an impass when looking for escape fugitives. Quote. They

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could be here locally or anywhere in the United States.

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At this point, more staff members from the US Marshall

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Service have joined in the manhunt as the search grows,

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and it's getting more methodical. According to the US Marshals,

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the vehicle that two of the escapees, Tate and Donald,

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who were captured in Texas, was rented in New Orleans

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and driven to Texas. That from Attorney General Liz Murrel,

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the two remaining escapees could also be outside of Louisiana,

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she said, quote, they absolutely could be moving into other areas.

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I alerted my colleagues in surrounding states immediately after the

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jail break to be on the alert and to notify

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their law enforcement partners that these individuals could be coming

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to their state. A glimmer of hope emerged Tuesday, when

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someone reported a possible sighting of Massy. This was at

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eight thirty am in Natche's, Mississippi. And y'all, Massy is

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not someone who can really blend in because he has

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a bunch of face tattoos, So keep that in mind.

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And Natchez incidentally is right across the Louisiana state line,

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about one hundred and thirty five miles from New Orleans.

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It's in Mississippi. But Tuesday night, that hope faded quote,

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we do not believe that the suspect is in our area.

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That from Adams County, Mississippi Sheriff Travis Patten. That's not

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to say he wasn't here, but we are saying he

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is not here now. Authorities in Natchez used a lot

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of manpower to search the area for the escapees, including helicopters,

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police dogs, drones, and video surveillance. And that's something really interesting. Look,

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these escapes that occur down they usually don't go more

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than a couple of days because of technology. It's really

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shocking these guys have been able to remain on the

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run for two weeks. Now. Then it gets into who

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Massy is and he's actually a fugitive who has a habit,

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if you will, of escaping. He was most recently charged

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with a vehicle theft and domestic abuse involving strangulation, but

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the thirty two year old does have a long track

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record of escaping custody. In two thousand and seven, he

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broke out of a New Orleans juvenile detention center after

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being arrested on suspicion of armed robbery and aggravated assault.

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A broken lock at that detention center allowed Massey, who

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was then fifteen, and five other juveniles who access metal shackles,

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which they used to shadow or window and escape. Massy

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stayed on the run for more than two weeks before

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authorities found him on an interstate in East New Orleans, mass.

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He has also cut off electronic ankle monitors twice that

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from Matt Dennis, an employee with the company who operates

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those monitors. Court records from late twenty twenty three, said

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Massy had tampered and or removed quote ordered GPS monitors.

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Dennis said he was astonished that someone with Massy's escape

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history was being held on the first floor of a

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New Orleans jail, a floor that had defective door locks.

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Quote there isn't an ounce in this man's history that

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doesn't scream escape. Groves was found to be one of

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the gunmen who opened fire with an AK forty seven

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style rifle on what should have been a joyous, Mighty

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grass gathering. The DA's office said Groves was found guilty

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of two counts of second degree murder and two counts

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of attempted second degree murder, both charges that carry a

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life sentence, so he has absolutely nothing to lose by escaping.

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Authorities have had a lot of leads and are getting

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tips from the community. District Attorney of New Orleans, Jason

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Williams said Tuesday, quote, it's vitally important that we catch

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these fugitives, whether it's in Arkansas, whether it's a Louisiana.

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But it's also critically important we know how they got

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out and who helped them get out, and we can't

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wait until they're in custody to do that. My office,

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the digital forensics team, everyone has been gowering through hours

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and hours of jail calls using some AI software to

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figure out who they were in contact with in the

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night and hours before the escape. Their circle is tightening

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as people who are assisting are being arrested, and authorities

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are chasing down leads trying to identify other associates of

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escapees in neighboring states. Those arrested in connection with helping

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the inmates include relatives and romantic partners. And then, as

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of just a few hours before this recording, they increase

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that twenty thousand dollars reward offer to fifty thousand dollars

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for tips leading to the capture of the two remaining

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fugitives in that New Orleans escape one thousand dollars. Dozen't

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entice you fifty thousand shit, and I'll tell you what,

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a lot of people would write your ass out for

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fifty g's. So these guys probably are going to get

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caught sooner rather than later. Now all this is going down,

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it's been big news for the last two weeks. You

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would think every other prison in the state of Louisiana

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would be on high alert. Right watch your prisoners. We

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don't want to be in that position. Well. A Louisiana

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jail inmate who escaped from a parish jail about a

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year ago has accomplished the same feat again, according to authorities.

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Trayvon Johnson, nineteen made his latest escape this was last

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Thursday from a Tangibahoe Parish jail, which has a history

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of jail breaks involving a half dozen inmates in recent years.

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Johnson had been awaiting trial for his alleged role in

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a home invasion that left a man killed and a

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child injured. Authorities said they became suspicious when a member

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of the public called the Sheriff's office shortly before ten

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pm Thursday, asking whether Johnson was still in custody. Quote

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Following an immediate headcount of the jail population and a

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review of Johnson's movements throughout the day, was determined he

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escaped around four point thirty pm, when another inmate helped

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lift him over the perimeter fence. Law enforcement officers are

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now searching for Johnson and also contacting victims and reaching

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out to Johnson's relatives and associates. In the summer of

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twenty twenty four, Johnson was among a group of four

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inmates who escaped from the same jail over Memorial Day weekend,

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crawling under a gap in a wall and then scaling

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two razor wire fences. Three of those escape ease, including Johnson,

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were captured within days, but it took six months to

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apprehend the fourth fugitive. Manpower shortages, inadequate staff training and experience,

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as well as a lack of supervision and insufficient head

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counts contributed to the escape last year, authority said at

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the time. In twenty seventeen, two brothers being held on

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charges that included attempted murder escape from the jail's exercise yard.

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They were recaptured the next day in Tanja Peho Pairish

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Jail and amt Is about seventy five miles from New Orleans.

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The latest jail break comes as state and federal officers

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continue hunting for five of the ten inmates, and of

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course when he escaped, there were still five on the

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lease from New Orleans. But that blew my mind. Now

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a little update, an article came out saying officials in

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Louisiana weren't aware the inmate was missing until a tipster

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called them. Authorities in Louisiana who were looking for an

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inmate who escaped jail for the second time in a

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year after a member of the public tipped them off. Thursday.

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Trayvon Johnson was awaiting trial in Tanji Pearish Jail for

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his alleged role in a twenty twenty two Hammond area

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home invasion where a man was killed his child was injured.

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And incidentally, they did correct his age here it said

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he was nineteen in the first article. They corrected that

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he is twenty two. The Sheriff's office set it received

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a call just before ten pm on Thursday from a

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member of the public asking if Johnson was still in custody.

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Could you imagine that call? The person did not identify themselves.

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According to Sheriff Gerald Sticker, following an immediate head count

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and a review of his movements, it was determined that

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he escaped. I told you all about that already. It

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set around four fifteen pm. There was an incident at

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the dorm in the jail where an inmate flooded a

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cell by stopping up a shower. As a result, a

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deputy was dispatched to the back with a crew of

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trustees to clean that water out of the dorm. While

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they were doing so, they opened the back door to

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the jail that leads into the yard, adding that the

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door to the dorm was left open for about one minute.

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A deputy who realized the back door was open, closed,

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but not before two individuals Johnson and another inmate, Trayvon Wallace,

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were able to get out. Wallace was found by an

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exterior door when deputies went to make sure it was shut.

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He was escorted back to his cell, but a head

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count was not done at the time and the incident

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was not reported up the chain of command. That's a

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big no note. An official count done around two hours

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later determined that all inmates were accounted for, but upon

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reviewing surveillance video, jail staff did not do a proper count. Quote.

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We have policies in place for this. We have procedures

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in place that dictate the amount of accounts were supposed

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to do per day. So that's another opportunity missed that.

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According to the sheriff, surveillance video outside the yard showed

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Johnson scaling the back fence while Wallace, who was underneath him,

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gave him a boost. For whatever reason, he couldn't get

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over the fence on his own, or he was just

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there to help the first individual get over that fence.

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He returned back to the jail and that's where our

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deputies intercepted him. Wallace has been charged with simple escape

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and principal to help someone escape. Johnson had been entered

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into the National Crime Information Center as an escapee. This

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is Johnson's second escape from the jail in a year.

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He was also one of foreignmates who broke out of

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the facility a year ago this month. And of course

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I told you about that. Johnson is five feet five,

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weighs one hundred and twenty five pounds and is from

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the Tickfall area. Anyone who sees Johnson needs to call police,

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et cetera. Now four people have been placed on administrative leave.

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I bet they have regarding that incident. Johnson's escape isn't

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the only prison break that has plagued Louise end of

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this week, and of course they go into the New

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Orleans escape and then this article came out. The tangebaho

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A Paaris Sheriff's office has confirmed that Trayvon Johnson, the

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twenty two year old accused murderer who escaped Thursday May

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twenty second from the parish jail for the second time,

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has been recaptured. Johnson was apprehended in a meet Louisiana,

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beginning an end to a multi agency man hunt that

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began with his disappearance from a jail that went undetected

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for nearly six hours. Authority say Johnson fled the jail

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Thursday at four point thirty pm, assisted by another inmate

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who helped him scale the perimeter fence. Surveillance footage received

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later showed Johnson jumping over the outer gate just after

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the dorm doors opened and closed, a sequence triggered by

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a toilet being flooded. Stickers said staff found Wallace and

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returned him to his cell, but did not notify a

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leadership nor initiate a head gown. According to the timeline

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provided by the Sheriff's office, staff failed to notice his

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absence until six PM, when a head count was logged.

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The escape was only confirmed after nine PM, when someone

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called the jail to ask about Johnson's custody status. Now

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imagine if someone wouldn't have called that jail, he could

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have went twenty four hours without anybody knowing. Internal notification

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and mobilization began at nine to fifty six pm, and

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the public was alerted nearly two hours later at eleven

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fifty four pm. That's too long for a escaped murderer,

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in my opinion. In a news conference, Sticker apologized to

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the community and Johnson's victims. He said four jail employees

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are on administrative leave, and the escape is not believed

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to be an inside job. Johnson, who is from Tickfall,

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is a waiting trial on the twenty twenty two ham

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And home invasion, in which a father was shot and

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killed and his twelve year old daughter was critically wounded.

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He was previously involved in another jail break in May

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of twenty twenty four, when he and three others Amaron Hook,

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Finn Aver Gidry and JaMarcus Ciprion, escaped the same jail.

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Johnson was later found hiding in a dumpster behind a

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Dollar General store outside of Ham In Louisiana, which y'all

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is in the same area at the time. He was

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recaptured along on Gidry. Now, following that twenty twenty four escape,

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newly elected Sheriff Gerald Sticker vowed to reform jail operations.

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He forced out then warden Jerry Martin, who had been

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hired under former Sheriff Daniel Edwards. Martin's tenure was plagued

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by discipline issues, and an investigation by a news source

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revealed he had been fired from Orleans Paris Sheriff's office

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in twenty twenty two following multiple suspensions, including one for

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threatening to kill an inmate. Now, Sheriff Sticker has placed

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four current jail employees on administrative leave as the department

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investigates how Johnson was able to escape again and how

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