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A week and a half after 10 detainees broke out from a New Orleans prison, three of the escapees were captured on Monday – leaving only two as a whole, according to the police from the state of Louisiana.
The Lenton Vanburen detainee was arrested in Baton Rouge, 72 miles northwest of New Orleans, the attorney general of Louisiana, Liz Murrill, said in a Publish. Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald were placed in police custody in the county of Walker, Texas, about 330 miles west of New Orleans, by Texas Department of Public Safety.
Vanburen was caught while sitting on a bench near a department store, the authorities of Baton Rouge said.
He was originally in prison, suspected of a violation of parole, possession of firearms by a criminal and illegal transport of a weapon, said Murrill. “He will now be faced with additional escape costs,” she added.
Tate and Donald were arrested after having directed several organizations for applying the law on high -speed prosecution, said the Huntsville police service.
“The pursuit ended near us 190 and Geneva, where the two subjects were placed in police custody,” said Huntsville police in a Facebook job. The authorities found the two after developing information in the Houston region, according to American Marshal Brian Fair. Huntsville is around 70 miles north of Houston.
The detainees captured on Monday were the first of the escape found outside New Orleans.
The authorities continue to search for two additional escaped prisoners, because 13 people were arrested as part of the assistant them allegedly.
Aside from the three men captured on Monday, Kendell Myles, Robert Moody, Dkenan Dennis, Gary Price and Corey Boyd are back in detention. Derrick Groves and Antoine Massey remain in freedom and are considered to be armed and dangerous.
The detainees would have used electric hair cutters with several clipper blades to help run Through the cell walls, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
The capture of three detainees in two states on Monday brings the authorities closer to the end of a prison break blame Defective locks, stolen covers and a hungry employee who would have played a role in their escape.
The prosecutor of the parish district of Murrill and Orleans, Jason Williams, visited the Orleans Justice Center last week as part of the in progress in progress on the escape.
In addition, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections deploys at least 10 experienced listeners in Orleans Justice Center to investigate the jailbreak.
The district prosecutor said that last week, the director of the New Orleans police service, Crime Lab, had visited the prison to start a formal judicial treatment of the scene, which, according to him, had not been requested by the Sheriff.
Williams asked the Sheriff Office to cooperate voluntarily with the forensic analysis by sharing all fingerprint or DNA recordings “for inclusion or elimination of their profiles”, according to a letter that Williams sent to the Sheriff Office Thursday which was obtained by CNN.
A separate letter on Thursday officially asked the sheriff’s office Preserve all recordings Linked to jailbreak, including surveillance video and electronic communications between staff.
“If you direct the security system, you would have known that a door was opening,” the former sheriff of the Orleans parish, which led the prison from 2004 to 2022 to CNN, told CNN.
“Especially in the middle of the night,” said Gusman.
Gusman told CNN that he did not know how the detainees entered the pose pose behind the toilet and the sink, but stressed that they had to navigate through walls made with a “substantial” network of concrete moldings about “5 inches thick” and mixed with steel reinforcement bars.
A maintenance worker from the Sheriff’s Office of the Orleans parish, Sterling Williams, was arrested last Tuesday. Williams, 33, is accused “voluntarily and malicious” of helping Jailbreak, according to a affidavit. He faces a charm of embezzlement in office and 10 charges of being a director of the simple escape.
Williams’ lawyer Michael Kennedy said the worker turned off the water to overflowing toilets after being informed to do so and that he was “Completely convinced” of the innocence of his client.
At least 12 other people are accused of helping prisoners in one way or another, including another detainee in the same establishment.
Investigators continue to paint through previous prison telephony recordings and believe that other prison prisoners may face charges for helping to escape and the initial concealment in the hours that followed the jailbreak, according to the source with direct knowledge of the investigation.
Trevon Williams Was arrested on Friday as part of the escape of prisoners. Trevon Williams, who was already in prison for unrelated accusations, was linked to an additional accusation of director to a simple escape, according to A post X de Murrill.
The other orders are accused of being accessories afterwards, the authorities said.
This story has been updated with additional information.
Ryan Young of CNN contributed to this report.
