<p class="speakable">One remaining Orleans Parish prison escapee is still on the run after <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement" rel="noopener" target="_blank">local and federal officials</a> on Friday arrested ninth fugitive Antoine Massey.</p><p class="speakable">Massey was one of 10 prisoners to escape a minimum-custody site at the Orleans Justice Center on May 16 when they removed a toilet from a wall inside a cell and then crawled through it.</p><p>One fugitive, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/homicide" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><u>four-time convicted killer</u></a> Derrick Groves, remains at large.</p><p>"It’s the final countdown," Gov. Jeff Landry said in a Friday post on X.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/authorities-raid-home-where-new-orleans-jail-escapee-appeared-shoot-video-pleading-help-source" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>AUTHORITIES RAID HOME WHERE NEW ORLEANS JAIL ESCAPEE APPEARED TO SHOOT VIDEO PLEADING FOR HELP: SOURCE</strong></a></p><p>At the time of his escape, Massey was incarcerated for domestic abuse battery involving strangulation, theft of a motor vehicle and parole violations.</p><p>"This evening, detectives from the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations- New Orleans Field Office and the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshal Service, and the New Orleans Police Department located and arrested 33-year-old Antoine Massey at a residence in New Orleans," the Louisiana State Police said in a Friday press release.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/search-continues-four-time-killer-serial-escapee-after-new-orleans-jailbreak" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>SEARCH CONTINUES FOR FOUR-TIME KILLER, SERIAL ESCAPEE AFTER NEW ORLEANS JAILBREAK</strong></a></p><p>Massey's capture comes after the former fugitive appeared to make a plea via Instagram to President <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> and other celebrities for help proving his self-proclaimed innocence earlier this month.</p><p>"I'm asking for help from the world," a man who appeared to be Massey said in the video. "From Meek Mills, Lil Wayne, YoungBoy, Donald Trump. I'm asking for these people. I couldn't even get a lawyer. I couldn't afford a lawyer to prove my innocence."</p><p>More than a dozen others <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-ag-confident-remaining-jailbreak-fugitives-will-recaptured-officials-make-14th-arrest" rel="noopener" target="_blank">have been arrested</a> in connection with the mass prison escape for allegedly helping fugitives.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-ag-confident-remaining-jailbreak-fugitives-will-recaptured-officials-make-14th-arrest" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>LOUISIANA AG CONFIDENT REMAINING JAILBREAK FUGITIVES WILL BE RECAPTURED AFTER OFFICIALS MAKE 14TH ARREST</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/new-orleans" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Orleans Justice Center</a> is only at 60% staffing, and at the time of the escape, four supervisors and 36 staff members were monitoring 1,400 inmates, authorities said.</p><p>Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson announced a temporary suspension of her re-election campaign in a statement on May 21.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP</u></strong></a></p><p>A total $50,000 reward from different agencies is being offered for information leading to Groves' arrest.</p><p><i>Fox News' Peter D'Abrosca and Adam Sabes contributed to this report.</i></p>
New Orleans jail escapee who begged Trump for help captured as manhunt targets last fugitive

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