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New Orleans escaped inmate Antoine Massey captured
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Updated: 4:51 PM CDT Jun 27, 2025
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Erin Lowrey
NEW ORLEANS —
An inmate who has been on the run for over a month has been captured in New Orleans.
Antoine Massey was captured Friday afternoon in the Hollygrove neighborhood.
Massey was the ninth inmate captured after the May 16 jail break from the Orleans Parish Jail.
The last inmate, Derrick Groves, remains on the run.
Massey has a criminal background and escape history that dates back to 2007.
He escaped a juvenile detention center that is now known as the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center.
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In 2019, he escaped the Morehouse Parish Detention Center and was found the same day in Texas.
He went on to cut off two ankle monitors, including one in 2023 inside a Walmart along Bullard. The owner of that ankle monitor, ASAP Ankle Monitoring officials, said.
"When you cut an ankle monitor off, it's a clear case of guilt. We know who we put it on. We know he took it off. There's no in between," said Matt Dennis with ASAP.
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Law enforcement officials confirmed a home in the 1700 block of Agriculture Street was raided after they were tipped off that it was the home where Massey recorded now-viral videos that were posted to social media.
Officials said while Massey was not there at the home, they did find belongings believed to have been worn by Massey when the videos were recorded.
In the videos, Massey claims his innocence. He also said he was "let out" of OJC, among other claims. WDSU has chosen not to show Massey making those claims.
The videos were online for at least 10 hours before WDSU saw them and sent them to law enforcement to help with their investigation. Some agencies WDSU reached out to had no idea about the videos until they were sent to them.
Massey was being held on domestic abuse charges in St. Tammany before going to Orleans Justice Center, where he was being held on domestic abuse and car theft charges when he escaped in mid-May.
St. Tammany Parish officials said they had also issued warrants for Massey's arrest for second-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping, domestic violence and violation of a protective order while he was serving time in Orleans. St. Tammany Parish officials said those warrants were issued following an investigation into an incident that occurred in November 2024 in Slidell.
Delving into Massey's criminal history, he also escaped from two jails, one in 2007, and broke out of two ankle monitors.
To date, this was the longest stretch of time Massey had gone without being captured following an escape.
