# Fourth New Orleans escapee captured as search narrows to six fugitives
Louisiana State Police said Corey Boyd was recaptured in New Orleans, leaving six inmates still at large after the mass jailbreak.
The arrest marked another step in a sprawling search that has kept New Orleans and the wider region on edge since the escape from the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility. ABC News reported that on the event date, a fourth fugitive, 21-year-old Gary C. Price, was taken back into custody, reducing the number of escapees still being hunted to six.
The jailbreak itself was dramatic. Ten men escaped from the jail on Friday, authorities said, after tampering with a locked cell door, moving through a wall behind a toilet and then fleeing through a loading dock before climbing a fence and crossing Interstate 10. The escape went unnoticed until a morning headcount later that day, which turned the incident into a much larger operational failure than a simple overnight breach.
The recapture is important because it shows how persistent the manhunt has been. Three inmates had already been caught earlier, and the fourth arrest on Monday meant authorities were slowly closing the net. The source says law enforcement had seen the fugitives on surveillance footage and was working with multiple agencies to track them down. Still, the remaining six had not been found, which kept pressure on the sheriff’s office and the state police.
The wider scandal around the jailbreak has been about more than just the escape itself. Officials have said there was no deputy assigned to the pod where the inmates broke out, that a civilian monitor had stepped away for food, and that the facility had long-standing problems with faulty locks. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill also announced the arrest of a maintenance worker on allegations he helped the inmates escape, while the sheriff’s office said several employees had been suspended.
That makes each recapture more than a routine arrest. It is part of an effort to show that the state still has control after one of the largest jail breaks in recent US history. At the same time, the case has turned into a broader reckoning over how the jail is run and whether the escape could have been prevented with better security, staffing and maintenance.
For families, residents and law enforcement, the practical question is simple: how long it will take to find the remaining men. The source says authorities believed they had some intelligence on all seven fugitives who were still free at one point in the search, but it offered no final timetable for the rest of the manhunt. What it does confirm is that one more inmate is back in custody, and that the search is still not over.
