Sterling Williams, who worked in jail maintenance at the time of the May 16 jailbreak, pleaded not guilty on Thursday during ...

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

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

Sterling Williams, a maintenance worker, is accused of aiding 10 inmates in a New Orleans prison escape, but his lawyer claims he was merely a tool, unaware of the plan. Authorities allege ...

New Orleans jail worker, Sterling Williams, did not know about the men’s plan and did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet for their escape, attorney Michael Kennedy said.

National News A maintenance worker is charged in connection with the New Orleans jail break In an arrest affidavit, Sterling Williams said one of the inmates who later escaped had threatened to ...

A 33-year-old prison worker, Sterling Williams, has been arrested after being accused of helping prisoners escape a New Orleans jail.

A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped has been arrested and accused of helping facilitate the breakout, officials said Tuesday. Sterling Williams, a 33-year-old ...

A New Orleans jail maintenance worker was charged Tuesday with helping 10 men break out of the jail last week, the first such arrest in the case.. Sterling Williams, 33, was hit with 10 counts of ...

Sterling Williams walked into pod 1-D of the Orleans Parish jail last Friday to fix a toilet, his attorney said. He was armed with a work order to repair it in a cell on the second tier, but that ...

Sterling Williams' attorney said he was not threatened into helping the inmates escape and that he was simply the maintenance worker on duty the night of the plot. Skip to content.