One of many closing two escapees from a New Orleans jailbreak final month has been recaptured after six weeks on the run, authorities mentioned Friday.
Antoine Massey, 33, is in custody, the U.S. Marshals Service has confirmed. He was situated and arrested in a residence in New Orleans on Friday night, in accordance with the Louisiana State Police.
A tip from a citizen to Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson led regulation enforcement to the home within the metropolis’s Third District, in accordance with New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick.
“He peacefully gave as much as regulation enforcement who had surrounded the home,” Kirkpatrick mentioned throughout a press briefing Friday night.
Louisiana State Police launched a photograph of Antoine Massey being taken into custody in New Orleans on June 27, 2025.
Louisiana State Police
The residence is an Airbnb, in accordance with Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Robert Hodges, who mentioned authorities are investigating those that could have helped him.
“It is fairly apparent during the last six weeks, to stay a fugitive that lengthy, he had help — he had assist,” Hodges mentioned on the briefing.
Earlier this month, Louisiana authorities had been investigating a video circulating on-line that appeared to indicate Massey pleading to rappers and President Donald Trump to assist him whereas he was nonetheless on the run.
Hutson thanked the group and regulation enforcement companions for capturing Massey.
“Collectively, we made this occur, and I am grateful,” she mentioned.
Louisiana State Police launched a photograph of Antoine Massey being taken into custody in New Orleans, June 27, 2025.
Louisiana State Police
Massey can be transported to a “safe state correctional facility exterior of the realm,” Louisiana State Police mentioned in a press launch.
On the time of the escape, Massey was incarcerated for home abuse battery involving strangulation, theft of a motorized vehicle and a parole violation, state police mentioned, including, “Extra fees could also be forthcoming.”
Massey was amongst 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice Middle final month, in accordance with Louisiana State Police.
Derrick Groves, the final remaining escapee, remains to be at massive.
“We nonetheless have yet one more,” Kirkpatrick mentioned throughout the briefing.
Addressing Groves, she mentioned, “We’re going to seize you. You’ll be taken into custody. However you continue to have the choice to peacefully flip your self in, and we’ll make an enchantment to you to take action.”
“All of those captures have been capable of be executed peacefully and that’s additionally the tip of the sport. We do not need anybody harm,” she continued.
Authorities had elevated the reward for info resulting in the arrest of Massey and Groves to $50,000 per inmate final month, as police mentioned on the time that they believed they had been closing in on the “harmful” fugitives.
Derrick Groves is proven on this undated reserving photograph launched by the Louisiana State Police.
Louisiana State Police
Groves was convicted final yr of two counts of second-degree homicide in a 2018 Mardi Gras Day capturing and faces a sentence of life in jail with out the potential of parole, prosecutors mentioned. Unrelated to that case, he additionally subsequently pleaded responsible to 2 counts of manslaughter, on-line court docket data present.
His girlfriend, Darriana Burton, was arrested this month for allegedly serving to Groves escape, authorities mentioned. She allegedly had an “energetic involvement within the planning part of the escape,” in accordance with the affidavit for her arrest warrant, together with relaying “escape-related info” and coordinating communications between Groves and folks exterior the jail.
The ten inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Middle within the early morning hours of Might 16 after climbing by way of a gap behind a rest room. Their disappearance was not observed for a number of hours and touched off an enormous manhunt.
A display screen seize taken from a handout CCTV video exhibits inmates working by way of the loading dock on the Orleans Parish Justice Middle, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., Might 16, 2025.
Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Workplace/through Reuters
Burton is one in every of over a dozen individuals who have been arrested on suspicion of serving to the escapees, together with one other inmate within the jail and a jail maintenance worker who’s accused of shutting off water to the bathroom permitting escapees to take away it.
Three of the ten inmates who escaped had been apprehended in New Orleans inside the first 24 hours of the jailbreak. The others had been captured within the following days, together with in Baton Rouge and Texas.
Hutson mentioned Friday that the sheriff’s workplace is constant to “harden and modernize” the jail within the wake of the escape.
“We’re putting in new razor wire, tightening bodily boundaries, upgrading locking mechanisms,” she mentioned. “These all play an vital function within the security of our residents, workers and your entire group.”
