As of Saturday morning, three of the ten men who broke out of the Orleans Parish jail the day before are back in custody.
The jailbreak, which happened around 1 a.m. Friday, went undiscovered for hours until guards performed a routine head-count of inmates at 8:30 in the morning. New Orleans police said the did not learn of the escape until around 10:30.
The first escapee to be recaptured, Kendall Myles, was taken in around 11 a.m. by members of Louisiana State Police Troop NOLA. Authorities found Myles trying to hide under a vehicle parked at the Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter.
Around 7:30 Friday evening, the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office says a Crimestoppers tip led authorities to Robert Moody, in the 3500 block of Second Street in Hoffman Triangle neighborhood of Central City.
Escapee Dkenan Dennis was arrested late Friday in New Orleans East.
The sheriff's office says the escape began when an inmate forced open a locked cell door, then escaped through a hole accessed by pulling a toilet/sink fixture away from the wall.
Officials say the inmates then ran out through a door at the jail's loading dock, scaled a wall using towels wrapped around their hands to protect against razor wire, and soon after made their way across railroad tracks and nine lanes of the Pontchartrain Expressway as they fled into the night.
The sheriff's office has suspended three jail employees amid the investigation, and says it has reason to believe the escapees may have had help from within the department.
