A pic shared by the cops shows a message scribbled above the hole in a wall from where 10 dudes escaped a New Orleans jail on Fri.“To [sic] Easy LoL,” reads the text above an opening behind a toilet at the Orleans Justice Center. The Orleans Parish Sheriff Office posted the pic, along with other snaps showing the escape route, on social media Fri evening.Other words in the area included “Fuck OPSO” and “Suck my dick O.J.C.”
The guys were able to break out of their cells due to “defective locks and doors,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a press release. They then managed to “breach a wall behind a toilet in their housing unit” and escape through a hole in the wall around 1:00 a.m. The office said at least one steel bar around the toilet’s plumbing fixtures seemed to have been cut using a tool.The escapees used blankets to avoid cuts from barbed wire as they climbed a fence, then ran across the interstate to freedom, the Associated Press reported.Surveillance footage shows the men, some in orange jumpsuits, running away from the jail.
The group pulled off their escape when the only guard watching them stepped away to grab food. Their absence wasn’t noticed until seven hours later, during a morning headcount, according to the AP.Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson suspects that the fugitives received “help” from someone inside her department in the jailbreak.The escapees range in age from 19 to 42 and were held on various charges. Three are accused of second-degree murder.As of Sat afternoon, three of the 10 had been captured, while a manhunt for the remaining seven continued.
So, not really sure why this matters, but a photo shared by the cops showed a message scribbled above the hole in a wall from where 10 dudes escaped a New Orleans jail on Fri. The text above an opening behind a toilet at the Orleans Justice Center read, “To [sic] Easy LoL.” The Orleans Parish Sheriff Office posted the pic, along with other snaps showing the escape route, on social media Fri evening. Other words in the area included “Fuck OPSO” and “Suck my dick O.J.C.”
The guys were able to break out of their cells due to “defective locks and doors,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a press release. They then managed to “breach a wall behind a toilet in their housing unit” and escape through a hole in the wall around 1:00 a.m. The office said at least one steel bar around the toilet’s plumbing fixtures seemed to have been cut using a tool. The escapees used blankets to avoid cuts from barbed wire as they climbed a fence, then ran across the interstate to freedom, the Associated Press reported. Surveillance footage shows the men, some in orange jumpsuits, running away from the jail.
The group pulled off their escape when the only guard watching them stepped away to grab food. Their absence wasn’t noticed until seven hours later, during a morning headcount, according to the AP. Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson suspects that the fugitives received “help” from someone inside her department in the jailbreak. The escapees range in age from 19 to 42 and were held on various charges. Three are accused of second-degree murder. As of Sat afternoon, three of the 10 had been captured, while a manhunt for the remaining seven continued.
