Two inmates still at large after eight recaptured

This combination from photos provided by Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office shows the 10 escapees from left top: Dkenan Dennis, Gary C. Price, Robert Moody, Kendell Myles, Corey E. Boyd. Bottom from left: Lenton Vanburen Jr, Jermaine Donald, Antonine T Massey, Derrick D. Groves, and Leo Tate Sr. ORLEANS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE VIA AP

Just two inmates remain on the run after 10 escaped from a New Orleans jail on May 16 using a hole behind a toilet, according to police.

Three more were arrested on Monday after being located in Baton Rouge and Walker County, Texas.

“Lenton Vanburen was arrested in Baton Rouge by the Baton Rouge Police Department,” the Louisiana Police Department said. “Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald were arrested in Walker County, Texas, by the Texas Department of Public Safety.”

Law enforcement didn’t learn about the escape until more than seven hours after the men fled the facility at 1 a.m. by squeezing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed-wire fence, authorities said.

The men range in age from 19 to 42 and were facing a variety of charges including aggravated assault, domestic abuse battery and murder.

The FBI increased its reward amount from $5,000 to $10,000 per escapee, while the CrimeStoppers reward was increased from $2,000 to $5,000, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was offering $5,000.

Several people have been arrested since the escape for allegedly assisting some of the fugitives.

For allegedly assisting Antoine Massey (still at large):

Diamond White, 21, was charged with principal to aggravated escape and obstruction of justice for assisting Massey.

For allegedly assisting Vanburen (captured):

Lenika Vanburen, 28, charged with accessory after the fact.

Tyshanae Randolph, 27, charged with accessory after the fact.

Patricia Vanburen, 18, charged with accessory after the fact.

Angel McKay, 41, charged with accessory after the fact.

Lenton Vanburen Sr., 48, charged with accessory after the fact.

Police said they were booked into the Plaquemines Parish jail.

Four other people were also charged last week with accessory after the fact.

Sterling Williams, a maintenance worker at the jail, was the first arrest in connection with the escaped inmates.

Williams, 38, admitted to agents one of the escapees told him to turn the water off in the cell where the inmates escaped from or they would “shank him,” according to investigators.

His attorney, Michael Kennedy, told The Associated Press his client shut off the water to unclog a toilet.

“This was clearly all part of an orchestrated plan,” Kennedy said. Williams “was nothing more than the tool they used to turn off the water, which they knew would have to happen after clogging the toilet.”

He was charged with 10 counts of principal to simple escape and malfeasance in office. His bond amount was set at $1.1 million, which is $100,000 for each charge he is facing.

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