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

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

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

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 ...

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

Sterling Williams is charged with being a principal to simple escape and malfeasance in office. Murrill said Williams admitted that he complied with a demand from one of the inmates to shut off ...

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.

Sterling Williams walked into pod 1-D of the Orleans Parish jail last Friday to fix a toilet, his attorney said. He was armed with a work order to repair it in a cell on the second tier, but that ...