A photo shared by law enforcement shows a message scrawled above the hole in a wall through which 10 men escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday.
“To [sic] Easy LoL,” reads text written above an opening behind a toilet at the Orleans Justice Center. The Orleans Parish Sheriff Office shared the image, along with other photos illustrating the escape route, on social media Friday evening.
Other words written in the general area included “Fuck OPSO” and “Suck my dick O.J.C.”
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Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office
The men were able to get out of their cells due to “defective locks and doors,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a press release. They were then able to “breach a wall behind a toilet in their housing unit” and escape through an opening in the wall at about 1:00 a.m. The sheriff’s office said at least one steel bar around the toilet’s plumbing fixtures appeared to have been cut using a tool.
The escapees used blankets to avoid cuts from barbed wire as they scaled a fence, then sprinted across the interstate to freedom, the Associated Press reported.
Surveillance footage shows the men, some clad in orange jumpsuits, running away from the jail.
The group made their getaway when the only guard assigned to watch them stepped away to get food. Their absence wasn’t noticed until seven hours later, during a morning headcount, according to the AP.
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson said she believes that the fugitives got “help” from someone inside her department in the jailbreak.
The escapees range in age from 19 to 42 and were incarcerated on a variety of charges. Three are accused of second-degree murder.
As of Saturday afternoon, three of the 10 had been captured, while a manhunt for the remaining seven continued.
