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One of the 10 inmates had previously escaped from a north ¶¶Òõh detention center in 2019, according to authorities.

Antoine Massey, 32, broke out of the Morehouse Parish Detention Center in Collinston, located about 20 miles outside of Monroe, with another inmate at about 10:15 a.m. on Aug. 26, 2019. The two ran out of the facility through a hole in the fence and escaped in a red rental car that had pulled up nearby, according to Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office Chief Criminal Deputy James Mardis.

Mardis said surveillance footage tracked the car near the property night before.

Massey and the other inmate were recaptured that evening in Lancaster, Texas, about 300 miles away from the detention center, according to a from the Sheriff's Office at the time. The two were taken into custody at the Tri City Jail in DeSoto, Texas and later extradited back to ¶¶Òõh.

No other information about the incident was immediately available, including who drove the getaway car or what charges Massey was in the detention center for. Massey does not possess a criminal record in Morehouse Parish, although the detention center has contracts to house inmates from other correctional facilities across the state, Mardis said.

Massey is among 10 inmates who Friday around 1 a.m. by breaking down a door, removing a toilet from a cell and sneaking out a hole in the wall. Four of the inmates have been captured so far, while six — including Massey — are still on the run five days later.

Sterling Williams, a jail maintenance worker arrested for allegedly abetting the escape, told investigators that Massey if he didn't cut the water off to the dorm area to allow inmates to remove the toilet.

An arrest warrant says Williams did not initially come forward and admit his part in the escape plan, only doing so after a round of questioning. It says that Williams "willfully and maliciously assisted with the escape of the 10 inmates."

Williams is the first person arrested in the case outside of the escapees. Sheriff Susan Hutson said three sheriff's office employees have been suspended related to the jailbreak. 

The six inmates still at large are Massey, Lenton Vanburen, Jermaine Donald, Leo Tate, Derrick Groves and Corey Boyd.

Massey, 32, was booked in March on charges of motor vehicle theft and domestic abuse battery involving strangulation. A judge issued a protective order in Orleans Parish and Massey hadn't entered a plea before Friday, court records show.

Massey is also wanted in St. Tammany Parish for domestic violence with strangulation, second degree kidnapping, second degree rape and violation of a protective order with battery involved, according to Suzanne Carboni, spokesperson for the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's office. Massey allegedly kidnapped a woman he knew in the Slidell area in November 2024 and brought her to Orleans Parish, she said.

Massey was later arrested in Mississippi and booked into the Orleans Parish Jail. By the time her office issued the warrants for his arrest, Carboni said, Massey was already incarcerated in Orleans, so a hold was placed for the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office’s warrants.

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security have contacted the victim, Carboni said.

Staff writer Willie Swett contributed to this report.