The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on May 18 that it has increased the reward for information leading to the arrests of seven inmates who remain at large after escaping a New Orleans jail.
Ten inmates facing various charges escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center around 1 a.m. on May 16 by breaching a wall behind a toilet and fleeing across an interstate highway.
Three of them—Kendell Myles, Robert Moody, and Dkenan Dennis—have already been recaptured while the remaining seven are still at large.
FBI special agent Jonathan Trapp told a press conference on Sunday that the FBI has doubled its reward from $5,000 per inmate to $10,000 for their whereabouts, noting that the escaped inmates likely receive assistance from members of the public to evade arrest….