NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office employee in connection with the escape of 10 inmates, the Louisiana Attorney General’s office confirmed Tuesday.

Sheriff Susan Hutson has said she believes the jail break was an inside job and last week told reporters her agency had suspended three employees pending an investigation.

“It’s almost impossible, not completely, but almost impossible for anybody to get out of this facility without help,” she said of the Orleans Justice Center, a correctional facility where 1,400 people are being held.

The inmates escaped through a hole in a wall behind a toilet in the early hours of Friday while the lone guard watching them went to get food. This guard was not the employee arrested, Lester Duhe, a spokesperson fo

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