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An who was arrested Monday and accused of helping 10 inmates escape the facility was identified as 33-year-old Sterling Williams. 

Williams was booked in Plaquemines Parish on a count of malfeasance in office and 10 counts of simple escape, according to online jail records. 

A law enforcement source familiar with the case said Williams was a maintenance worker at the jail. 

Attorney General Liz Murrill's office said that Williams told investigators an inmate told him to turn off the water in the cell where inmates escaped. Instead of reporting the inmate, Williams cut the water, according to Murrill's office. 

Williams was initially booked into the New Orleans jail "without incident" before he was relocated to another facility, Murrill's office said.

Williams told investigators that an inmate he identified as 32-year-old Antoine Massey, one of the escapees, threatened to shank him if he refused to cut the water, according to court records.

Surveillance footage also shows Williams standing in the open door of the pod where the inmates escaped, talking with 27-year-old Derrick Groves, Massey and another unidentified inmate, according to court documents.

Williams told agents that Groves tried to take his phone and to persuade him to bring CashApp information to his cousin in the next pod over, according to the documents. 

This is the first arrest made in connection with the jailbreak, though the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office  without pay pending an internal investigation. 

"We will uncover all the facts eventually and anyone who aided and abetted will be prosecuted to the full extent the law allows," Murrill said in a statement. "I encourage anyone who knows anything and even those who may have provided assistance to come forward now to obtain the best possible outcome in their particular case."

The 10 inmates were discovered missing at 8:30 a.m. Friday during a routine headcount, and OPSO officials believe they broke free and fled more than seven hours before at around 1 a.m.

Escapees Kendell Myles, Robert Moody, Dkenan Dennis and Gary Price , but six remain on the run: Antoine Massey, Lenton Vanburen, Jermaine Donald, Leo Tate, Derrick Groves and Corey Boyd.