Cops have brought charges against a jail employee allegedly linked to the escape of ten Orleans Parish inmates, six of whom remain at-large.
"We executed an arrest on an individual who is, in fact, a maintenance worker or was a maintenance worker at the facility," Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told WWL's Newell Normand.
Murrill says Sterling Williams was booked on one count of malfeasance in office and ten counts of simple escape.
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Investigators say Williams hut off the water to the cell where inmates tore a toilet off the wall and broke into a service corridor.
Williams claims one of the escapees threatened to stab him if he didn't help. Murrill says he should have reported the threat.
Meanwhile, the attorney general says the investigation is not over.
"We need to get to the facts and we need to understand not only who was directly complicit, but what other factors are contributing to this event occurring," said Murrill.