According to the Louisiana State Police, Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald were arrested in Walker County.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Two more escapees from the Orleans Parish Jail are now in custody, captured here in Southeast Texas.
According to Louisiana State Police, Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald were found in Walker County and arrested by the Texas Department of Public Safety. They’re the seventh and eighth of the 10 escapees to be captured. Two more remain on the run.
According to a post from the Huntsville Police Department, the two were arrested after leading officers on a high-speed chase. The chase ended at around 6:30 p.m. near U.S. 190 and Geneva, which is where both men were arrested.
Both were taken to the Walker County Jail for processing.
Donald was charged with outstanding warrants for Escape and Resisting an Officer. His original charges were Illegal Carrying a Weapon and Second-Degree Murder. Tate was charged with outstanding warrants for Aggravated Escape and Escape from Custody. He was in custody on the original charge of Obstruction of Justice.
We have a crew heading to Walker County now.
News of the new captures comes just hours after a sixth escapee – Lenton Vanburen – was taken into custody in Baton Rouge.
How the escape happened
According to the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, the inmates broke free around 12:23 a.m. on Friday, May 16. Using defective cell locks and a breached wall behind a toilet, they exited through a supply dock and scaled a perimeter wall before fleeing across the interstate.
A civilian monitor had reportedly stepped away for food at the time. Three security cameras in the unit were inoperable. A photo obtained by WWL Louisiana shows a hole in the wall with a mocking message written above it: “To (sic) easy lol.”
From there, the inmates made good on their escape by running out of a door at the loading dock and scaled a wall and fence. Then, the inmates crossed I-10 into a neighborhood.
Eight inmates recaptured
- Kendell Myles, 20
- Robert Moody, 21
- Dkenan Dennis, 24
- Gary C. Price, 21
- Corey Boyd, 19
- Lenton Vanburen, 26
- Leo Tate, 31
- Jermaine Donald, 42
Inmates still at large
- Antoine Massey, 32
- Derrick Groves, 27