A maintenance worker at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office has been arrested for allegedly aiding the brazen escape of 10 inmates from the Orleans Justice Center this past week, six of whom remain at large.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced on May 20 that Sterling Williams, 33, was taken into custody without incident and faces 10 counts of Principal to Simple Escape and one count of Malfeasance in Office, stemming from his role in the May 16 breakout.
According to Murrill’s office, Williams admitted to investigators that one of the inmates instructed him to shut off the water in a cell through which the group later escaped. Rather than report the suspicious request, Williams complied, allegedly enabling the inmates to exploit a breach in the facility’s infrastructure—a hole behind a toilet….