9th escaped New Orleans inmate captured, sheriff’s office says, one last inmate still at large

Antoine Massey, a serial escapee who vanished from a New Orleans jail with nine other inmates just after midnight on May 16, was arrested Friday afternoon in New Orleans, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

The last remaining escapee, Derrick Groves, is still on the run after breaking out of the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans over a month ago.

Massey was most recently charged with vehicle theft and domestic abuse involving strangulation, according to Orleans Parish records.

The 33-year-old was captured in a rental property in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, according to Deputy US Marshal Brian Fair. He was arrested just miles from the jail where Massey and the other inmates made their brazen escape, taking advantage of bad locks, stolen bedding and a hungry jail employee, and using electric hair trimmers with multiple clipper blades to help cut their way through the cell walls.

Massey was taken into custody without incident after being surrounded on Friday afternoon, according to the US Marshals. It was “peaceful,” Fair told CNN.