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

Sterling Williams was booked into the Plaquemines Parish Jail early Tuesday morning. Williams, 33, is facing one count of malfeasance in office and 10 counts of simple escape.

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

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 told ...

New Orleans jail worker charged with helping 10 inmates escape was just doing his job, his lawyer says Sterling Williams, a maintenance worker at the New Orleans jail, was charged with helping 10 ...

On Tuesday, authorities made their first staff arrest. Maintenance worker, Sterling Williams, 33, admitted to law enforcement that one of the escapees “advised him to turn the water off in the cell” ...

The employee, identified as 33-year-old Sterling Williams, was arrested on Monday night. Mr Williams is accused of turning off the water to the cell that was used for the escape, which involved ...

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