New Orleans jail maintenance worker arrested on allegations he helped 10 inmates escape

Investigators arrested Sterling Williams, who allegedly admitted he turned water off to toilet covering hole in wall

A maintenance worker at New Orleans's jail has been arrested on allegations that he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in the wall that 10 men who escaped from the facility early Friday used for their getaway.

Investigators arrested 33-year-old jail maintenance worker Sterling Williams after he allegedly admitted to officials that one of the men advised him to turn the water off in the cell" before the men slipped away through the hole in the wall at the Orleans Justice Center (OJC), the Louisiana attorney general's office said in a statement.