A maintenance worker in a New Orleans prison where 10 inmates escaped was arrested and accused of helping to facilitate breakup, authorities said Tuesday.
Sterling Williams, a maintenance worker at the Justice Center of the Parish of Orleans, was arrested and admitted to jail on Tuesday morning, sources familiar with the arrest to ABC News said.
Williams supposedly closed the water to a bath to help in the escape in an apparent attempt to help clarify a way for inmates to escape, the sources said.
The Orleans Center cell in New Orleans, where they apparently escaped.
Sheriff Office of the Parish of Orleans
Williams faces 10 positions of beginning to escape simple and a embezzlement position.
Three other prison employees have been suspended in this investigation.
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