An Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office maintenance man accused of cutting off water to a jail cell, allowing 10 inmates to remove ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The maintenance worker accused of helping 10 inmates escape the Orleans Parish Jail has pleaded not ...

The Louisiana attorney general’s office charged Sterling Williams with ten counts of “principal to simple escape” and one ...

His attorney, Michael Kennedy, calls the charges “frivolous” and says his client was simply doing the job he was hired to do.

Lester Duhé, spokesperson for the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, confirmed to USA TODAY that the nine men pleaded not ...

Sterling Williams, 33, was charged Tuesday (July 15) with malfeasance in office and 10 counts of principal to simple escape for allegedly assisting inmates in their May 16 jailbreak from the ...

Honing in on one of the people arrested, Sterling Williams. He had been working at the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office for five years when court documents said he had in some way aided the ...

Sterling Williams is accused of helping 10 New Orleans inmates escape prison. However, close friends say these actions are out of character.

Michael Kennedy, a lawyer for Sterling Williams, told USA TODAY last week that his client didn’t know about the escape plan and only shut down the water because of a clogged toilet.