A lawyer for a idiosyncratic charged with aiding the New Orleans jailbreak by 10 prisoners says the worker unopen disconnected h2o to unclog a toilet, not to let the men to chopped the tube to unfastened an flight route
NEW ORLEANS -- A idiosyncratic charged with aiding the New Orleans jailbreak by 10 prisoners unopen disconnected h2o to unclog a toilet, not to let the men to chopped the tube to make an opening for their escape, the employee's lawyer told The Associated Press connected Wednesday.
Sterling Williams, a 33-year-old attraction idiosyncratic astatine the jail, was arrested Tuesday successful transportation with the jailbreak.
Authorities had said earlier that Williams had been instructed by 1 of the inmates to crook disconnected the h2o to a toilet. Behind the toilet was a spread that 10 men slipped done successful Friday’s escape.
“It would look evident to maine that filling up the toilet, clogging the toilet, was a information of the escapee’s plan,” lawyer Michael Kennedy said. “They would cognize that whoever the attraction idiosyncratic was would person to crook disconnected the water...because it was overflowing into the tier.”