The prison of the prison of the parish of Orleans is captured after more than a month on the run

An inmate who escape from the correctional establishment of the Orleans parish in May And was on the run for over a month was captured, the authorities announced on Friday.

Antoine Massey was arrested in a house in New Orleans, police said in a statement.

During a press conference, the sheriff of the Orleans parish, Susan Hutson, said that the information that had led to the apprehension had been provided to him on Friday morning between 10 and 11 a.m.

Massey was in police custody at 3.30 p.m., she said, refusing to provide additional details on the advice.

At the time of his escape, Massey, 33, was incarcerated for domestic abuse involving a strangulation, a flight of motor vehicles and a violation of the parole, the state police announced in a press release.

Additional costs could be to come, said the agency.

Massey will be taken to the maximum state security prison in Angola, northeast of Baton Rouge, to the colonel of the police of the state of Louisiana, Robert Hodges, told journalists.

An inmate, Derrick Groves, remains in freedom.

Groves was found guilty of second degree murder and tried a second degree murder in October.

“We are going to capture you,” New Orleans police chief Anne Kirkpatrick said on Friday. “Meeting peacefully.”

The law enforcement officials said that a reward of $ 50,000 was available for information leading to the arrest of his groves.

They were one of 10 people accused of having removed the toilets from a cell wall and to flee a hole in Orleans Parish Justice Center on May 16.

A message – “To easy lol” – was seen scribbled on the wall on photos published by the authorities.

More than a dozen people have been arrested and accused of having helped their escape, including a prison maintenance worker whom the authorities have accused of having cut the water into the cell so that the detainees can remove the toilets.

A maintenance lawyer, Sterling Williams, denied having played a role in their escape. He said that his client had extinguished the water because the toilets in an unused handicap unit were obstructed.