The authorities captured Derrick “Woo” Groves, the last of the 10 prisoners who organized an escape from the Orleans justice Center in May.
Groves, 31, was taken into custody in the Atlanta after an alleged distance with the local police on Wednesday (October 8), several reports stated with citation of resources of law enforcement.
HIGH-PROFIL Escape
Groves and nine others broke out from New Orleans on May 16, 2025 by removing the toilet from the cell where the water was cut off, squeezing through the hole in the wall and scaling a barbed wire fence. The footage of sight captured a group that plunged into the night. The escape was unnoticed until the number of morning heads. On the wall above the escape hole, the officials found a mocking message: “Easy lol.”
Nine prisoners were captured during weeks. Groves, however, managed to stay at freedom for almost five months, a supported network of supporters.
Violent criminal history
Groves served a lifetime punishment for the murder of the second degree, in 2024 convicted of burning the assault rifle into the Mardi Gras block party, killed two men and injured several others. He also confessed to killing for killing in two separate shooting and had the history of drug trafficking and violent crime. The prosecutors claim that witnesses in his cases have been repeatedly threatened or intimidated in silence.
According to Groves reports in the ninth grade he dropped out of school and joined the heroin negotiations at the lower ninth department. His criminal register began at 17 when he was charged with attempted murder, but later liberated.
Allegedly inside the help
Investigators argue that a former prison employee who became Groves’s girlfriend when he was imprisoned, helped him coordinate escape by organizing non -monitored telephone calls. They are at least 16 people – many relatives of refugees – accused of helping leak by providing shelter, transport, food and cash.
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