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An inmate who escaped from the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility in May and was on the run for more than a month has been captured, authorities said Friday.
Antoine Massey was taken into custody at a New Orleans home, the Louisiana State Police said in a statement.
During a news conference, Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson said the information that led to the apprehension was provided to her Friday morning between 10 and 11 a.m.
Massey was custody by 3:30 p.m., she said, declining to provide additional details about the tip.
At the time of his escape, Massey, 33, was incarcerated on charges of domestic abuse involving strangulation, motor vehicle theft and a parole violation, the state police said in a news release.
Additional charges may be forthcoming, the agency said.
Massey will be taken to the state’s maximum security prison in Angola, northeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Police Col. Robert Hodges told reporters.
One inmate, Derrick Groves, remains at large.
Groves was convicted of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in October.
“We are going to capture you,” New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said Friday. “Peacefully turn yourself in.”
Law enforcement officials said a $50,000 reward remains available for information leading his Groves’ arrest.
They were among 10 people accused of removing a toilet from a cell wall and fleeing through a hole at Orleans Parish Justice Center on May 16.
A message — “To easy LOL” — was seen scrawled on the wall in photos released by authorities.
More than a dozen people have been arrested and accused of assisting in their escape, including a jail maintenance worker whom authorities accused of cutting off the water in the cell so the inmates could remove the toilet.
A lawyer for the maintenance worker, Sterling Williams, has denied that he played a role in their escape. He said his client turned off the water because the toilet in an unused handicap cell was clogged.
