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In May 2025, 10 inmates — some of whom were facing murder charges — escaped a New Orleans prison

While nine of the men were captured within weeks, convicted murderer Derrick Groves evaded police for five months

He was captured in October 2025 after a tip led authorities to a house in Atlanta

It took police five months to capture the last of a group of inmates who escaped a New Orleans prison .

On Oct. 8, U.S. Marshals announced that they found Derrick Groves hiding out in an Atlanta residence, per CNN . The convicted murderer broke out of the Orleans Parish Justice Center with nine other inmates in May 2025.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Brian Fair told CNN that a tip called into Crimestoppers Greater New Orleans led investigators to Groves' location and that it took "almost

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