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SouthBayDem

(32,803 posts)
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 04:12 PM Jul 24

Two months after jailbreak, Derrick Groves remains at large as fellow escapees plead not guilty to charges

Source: WWNO New Orleans Public Radio

A convicted killer with a history of violence remains at large more than two months after he and nine others escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center.

The FBI, Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals Service, and Louisiana State Police are actively searching for 28-year-old Derrick Groves, the last remaining fugitive from the May 16 jailbreak. A $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture.

“The Louisiana State Police continues to work alongside our local, state, and federal partners to investigate all information that may lead to Derrick Groves’s apprehension,” the agency said in a statement to WWNO. “Our focus remains unwavering, and we will not stop until Groves is in custody.”

Authorities said 10 incarcerated men escaped the Orleans Parish Justice Center in the early hours of Friday, May 16. They reportedly slipped through a hole behind a toilet, scaled the jail’s walls and ran across Interstate 10 before disappearing into nearby neighborhoods.

Read more: https://www.wwno.org/wwno/2025-07-24/two-months-after-jailbreak-derrick-groves-remains-at-large-as-fellow-escapees-plead-not-guilty-to-charges

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Two months after jailbreak, Derrick Groves remains at large as fellow escapees plead not guilty to charges (Original Post) SouthBayDem Jul 24 OP
This would not be happening if JustAnotherGen Jul 24 #1
Why? This is about a city jail not federal nt SouthBayDem Jul 24 #2
Because i said so JustAnotherGen Jul 24 #3
But, you know if she was president, she'd be getting blamed for it. n/t OnlinePoker Jul 24 #6
She was a fierce Prosecutor JustAnotherGen Jul 24 #7
He can't hide forever. He's gonna get got! oasis Jul 24 #4
Maybe it's not worth their while, you know, taxi Jul 24 #5
Pleading not guilty? SCantiGOP Jul 24 #8
Alien abduction? kirby Jul 24 #9
He's working for ICE. camartinwv Friday #10

JustAnotherGen

(36,008 posts)
7. She was a fierce Prosecutor
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 04:45 PM
Jul 24

She would have personally had them returned in under a week. But first she would have been blamed for it.

My thing to piss of maga Pubs is say "this would've happening if Harris was President".

Did it other day when I was at Shoprite and a high profile maga Pub in my community picked up an orange and four others fell.

His face was red but I just kept walking.

taxi

(2,412 posts)
5. Maybe it's not worth their while, you know,
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 04:31 PM
Jul 24

there are all those criminal housekeepers and laborers in the country illegally that are a much bigger problem than some escaped felon.

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