“TOO EASY LOL”: 5 Fugitives Still Loose After New Orleans Jailbreak

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Ten inmates broke out of one of Louisiana’s largest jails and five are still on the run. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down how they escaped through a hole behind a toilet, the insider help they allegedly received, and the massive manhunt now underway. Four people, including a jail worker and three women, have been arrested for aiding the fugitives. Plus, Ashleigh speaks with former inmate Larry Levine, who explains just how common it is to flip someone on the inside.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. And in this episode, we're digging
0:05.4	into a jail break in New Orleans that's so outrageous it sounds like a comedy sketch. 10 inmates
0:12.4	escape from the Orleans Parish Justice Center and five of them are still on the loose as of this
0:18.9	recording. They are somewhere out there.
0:21.3	And wait until you hear how they pulled off the jail break.
0:24.5	Because this wasn't just bold.
0:26.8	It was reckless, brazen, and honestly, it was completely avoidable.
0:32.7	And now five dangerous inmates are roaming freely about the cabin
0:35.6	after slipping out of custody in the middle of the
0:38.5	night. And it's really nothing short of a miracle that no one's been killed. But how did this even
0:43.8	happen? Let's rewind to 101 a.m. on Friday, May 17th. All 10 inmates slip out of this city jail.
0:53.5	It is not a county lockup. It is not a county lockup.
0:55.6	It is not a juvie hall.
0:57.7	We are talking about one of the biggest jails in Louisiana.
1:01.3	And how did they do it?
1:02.9	They unbolted a toilet.
1:05.0	And they crawled out through the back wall.
1:07.8	And by the way, if you're new to the podcast, you probably know that Atlas, my golden
1:12.5	doodle, freely roams about this cabin. He's always in the studio, and every so often you'll hear him
1:18.4	panting, and you'll hear him crunching because I give him milk bones. I like the ASMR part of Atlas,
1:26.4	crunching on the mic.
1:28.6	Anyway, so these guys unbolt a toilet.
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