According to an affidavit, Williams allegedly shut off the water to a cell where the 10 inmates later escaped.

The Louisiana attorney general announced the arrest of a jail employee in connection with the escape of 10 New Orleans inmates.

Michael Kennedy is representing Sterling Williams after he was booked on 10 counts of principal to simple escape and one count of malfeasance in office. Sign up for our Newsletters Williams ...

A maintenance worker charged in connection with the Orleans Parish jail escape said an inmate threatened to shank him if he did not help, court documents released Tuesday said. Also Tuesday, a ...

The worker, Sterling Williams, did not know about the men’s plan and did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet to create an opening for their escape, attorney Michael Kennedy ...

Leading up to the jailbreak, one of the inmates who escaped, 32-year-old Antoine Massey, allegedly told a maintenance worker, Sterling Williams, to shut off the water for a cell, according to ...

Sterling Williams, the 33-year-old maintenance worker who was jailed after ten prisoners escaped from a jail in New Orleans, revealed why he assisted them. A member of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested on accusations that he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in the wall that 10 men squeezed through to break ...

Others arrested in connection with the prison escape include jail maintenance worker, Sterling Williams, Casey Smith, Connie Weeden, Cortnie Harris, and Corvanntay Baptiste. Weber, 28, Smith ...

The men escaped from the jail last week through a hole in a bathroom wall. Charges against Sterling Williams were announced by the Louisiana Attorney General’s office on Tuesday. An escapee ...