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New Orleans – 16 May 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheriff Susan Hutson, Orleans Parish, Louisiana:
"It went out a loading bay door where we bring in supplies and then they got over a wall.
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Mallett, Chief of Corrections, Orleans Parish, Louisiana:
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"What we saw was they went through an exit door that’s in between the actual cell block and the pipe chase, there. This is a large facility. So the pipe chase, the exit door, for some reason or another was designed to lead directly outside. The individuals left out the door, went down the stairs, went through the perimeter wall and scaled the wall. We did some looking today and realized that some razor wire that we need to put up some issues. But they scaled the wall, jumped down, and then you have a clear path to the railroad track and where the interstate."
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3. STILL: This photo obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, May 16, 2025, shows an opening inside a cell at the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans
STORYLINE:
Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, setting off an urgent manhunt to arrest the fugitives.
Nine of the escapees, which include suspects charged with murder, remain on the lam following the breakout that the local sheriff says may have been aided by members within the department.
A photograph obtained by The Associated Press from law enforcement shows the opening behind a toilet in a cell that the men escaped through.
Above the hole are scrawled messages that include “To Easy LoL” with an arrow pointing at the gap.
The absence of the 10 men, who also utilized facility deficiencies that officials have long complained about in their escape, went unnoticed for hours.
It was not until a routine morning headcount, more than seven hours after the men fled the facility, that law enforcement learned of the escape.
Soon after, one of the fugitives, Kendall Myles, 20, was apprehended after a brief foot chase through the French Quarter. He had previously escaped twice from juvenile detention centers.
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson said the men were able to get out of the Orleans Justice Center because of “defective locks.”
Hutson said she has continuously raised concerns about the locks to officials and, as recently as this week, advocated for money to fix the ailing infrastructure.
Hutson said there are indications that people inside her department helped the fugitives escape.
Hutson said the 10 men “breached” a wall behind a toilet around 1 a.m. and that surveillance footage shows the men exiting through a loading dock door, scaling a wall and running across an interstate.
Authorities did not notice the men were missing until 8:30 a.m. Authorities initially said 11 had escaped, but at a Friday afternoon news conference said one man thought to have escaped was in a different cell.
The escapees range from 19 years old to 42. Most of the men are in their 20s.
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