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

An Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office maintenance man accused of cutting off water to a jail cell, allowing 10 inmates to remove ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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