Final escaped New Orleans inmate in custody following ‘brief stand-off’: Police

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(NEW ORLEANS) — The last of 10 inmates who had been on the lam following a New Orleans jailbreak in May has been captured, police said Wednesday.

Derrick Groves, 28, was apprehended in Atlanta following a “brief stand-off,” Louisiana State Police said.

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