Authorities in Louisiana are scrambling to track down nine inmates who remain at large after a brazen overnight escape from the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans, where 10 men broke out by crawling through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, officials confirmed Friday.
The breakout was discovered during a routine headcount at 8:30 a.m. on May 16—more than seven hours after the men had fled the jail. Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson initially said at a morning briefing that 11 inmates were missing, but later clarified that one of the men was mistakenly counted among the escapees and had been in a different cell.
