May 20, 2025 • 6 mins
The story of the Louisiana jailbreak continues on, with some more details, including the report that a maintenance worker at the prison assisted in the break-out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now it's time for Benson's week day Up Day,
featuring veteran news anchor ktth On tweets.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here are the important stories he's currently tracking from around
the world.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yesterday we told you about the New Orleans prison break,
where ten inmates escaped through a hole in the wall
behind the toilet and sink fixture, and on the wall
they wrote we innocent and too easy lol. As of
yesterday's reporting, three of those men had been found, seven
still on the loose. They have found one more. Okay,
(00:34):
so we're down to six on the lamb.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That was really funny.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Four have been caught. But the big development is this
a maintenance worker has been arrested is helping them. Thirty
three year old Sterling Williams shut off the water at
the jail allegedly, and then it allowed them to remove
the metal toilet and the sink fixture from the cell wall.
(01:03):
He claims one of the inmates threatened to quote shank
him if he did not help them.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, it's tough dilemma.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You guys called this, You guys guess there was a
you know, what do you do in that situation? Either
get shanked, help them risk going to prison or just quit.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I put him by two weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was gonna say he is very very stuck to
the idea of no narks because it just seems to me,
since the guy's already in prison, that you could go
to the warden and go that guy threatened to shank
me if I didn't help him, and then they can
put him into the thing right.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Then what if the shank is out though, like you,
there's no time to go to the warden. No, but
you tell him like, yeah, I'll do it right now,
and then instead of going to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Like he didn't get to walk around with you with
a shank next to you until you walk to shut
the water off.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I feel like you guys are like I'm following you,
I see you, I hear you, I understand you.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think we're just assuming that the warden's highly available.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm gonna admit I haven't been to prison in a
long time, so things may have changed, But it seems
to me that like prisoners may just be threatening people
all the time right in his prison life, and I
feel like if you go tell the warden on somebody
that it's not gonna work out. Good for you no
matter what, or why couldn't you do this? Why couldn't
(02:25):
you go through with it and tell the warden in advance?
I was threatened with this, So let's have the whole crew.
They're ready to just grab the guys and stick them
in solitary confinement for trying to break out, and then
I've told you what I'm doing, so we're in on it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Like when I wore a wire for the FBI.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, Like we went through the paces, dude, So you'd
immediately have to go get a job somewhere else. You
couldn't be around convicts knowing that you just busted ten
of them.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm so glad at the age of eleven, I changed
my career path because I grew up wanting to be
a maintenance worker at a prison, and when I decided,
you know, broadcasting could be fun.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So also, the inmates left the jail doing these three things,
and I just wanted to see what you guys thought
would be the hardest thing to do of these three
things for you personally. They left the jail through the
loading dock. Okay, so you have to jump off the
loading dock. They scaled a wall and then they ran
across Interstate ten.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What do you guys think you could do all the trifecta?
There's no way I would break a leg and at
least one of those things. My knees started hurting as
soon as you said jumping off the loading here, was like,
I could not do that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't even like taking the stairs. I'm not I'm
just gonna sit. I'm just gonna do life. What about
the story where old ten prisoners got arrested at the
loading dock because they were unwilling to jump off of it?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh my god, you know what's so funny about that video
When they are all jumping off of it and they're
all on a single file line running, probably just adrenaline
bump and probably some giggling going on.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Go back and watch that same video, but superimpose the
Peanuts music on the.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Seriously, it's kind of funny to watch it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So, a civilian employee of the Sheriff's office was the
only person monitoring security systems in that part of the
jail where the escape occurred, but he'd left his station
at that time to go get some food.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Okay, what the story is that he went to pee was.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That another story I saw, Yeah, and in fact, our
buddy Mike P textan as he goes man, there's a
story that says that guy wants to take a pee.
When that happened, he says.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He went to get food in the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But you know, I multimant, yeah, but Mike P is
reporting that he went to take a week Okay, so
uh yeah, and that guy's not being questioned that he
left his post at the exact time he had to
go get his third hot dog, and he his roommates
with Sterling Williams.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It all seems.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, he'd only had two hot dogs for lunch, so
he was going at dinner time to get his third
and fourth hot dog because.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
He was starving day.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I respect that he had an appetizer hot dog. Many
times he ran down to a Mike's Jemini Lounge and
was waiting, we get some right off the right off
their appetizer hot dogs, just to get started here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But it doesn't he usually this might just be an
understaffing thing.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But usually you would go, hey, man, can you watch
the cameras for a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm famished. I gotta get my fifth hot dog.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Dude, Why doesn't anybody do that like they we have sliders?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Why not have tiny hot dogs? Excuse me, tiny hot
hot dog appetizers?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Excuse me, waiter, what's the difference in the entree hot
dog and the appetizer?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Why is it the warden bringing these up like an
order and just kind of keeping his staff doing what
they're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And you need some replenishment. Aren't those pigs in a blanket?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Those are pigs in a blanket, for sure, little smoky,
But well does the croissant make it that?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, it's a little hot dogs in a bunt.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Normal.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I've always thought it was a pancake and sausage made
it a pig and a blanket?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, never noticed?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
All right, Coming up next, we crank up the wayback machine.
Don't go anywhere. This is coming up in less than
three minutes. We're gonna get you laughing on your way home.
We return to the sports Inferno, and just over three
minutes next
And now it's time for Benson's week day Up Day,
featuring veteran news anchor ktth On tweets.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here are the important stories he's currently tracking from around
the world.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yesterday we told you about the New Orleans prison break,
where ten inmates escaped through a hole in the wall
behind the toilet and sink fixture, and on the wall
they wrote we innocent and too easy lol. As of
yesterday's reporting, three of those men had been found, seven
still on the loose. They have found one more. Okay,
(00:34):
so we're down to six on the lamb.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That was really funny.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Four have been caught. But the big development is this
a maintenance worker has been arrested is helping them. Thirty
three year old Sterling Williams shut off the water at
the jail allegedly, and then it allowed them to remove
the metal toilet and the sink fixture from the cell wall.
(01:03):
He claims one of the inmates threatened to quote shank
him if he did not help them.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, it's tough dilemma.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You guys called this, You guys guess there was a
you know, what do you do in that situation? Either
get shanked, help them risk going to prison or just quit.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I put him by two weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was gonna say he is very very stuck to
the idea of no narks because it just seems to me,
since the guy's already in prison, that you could go
to the warden and go that guy threatened to shank
me if I didn't help him, and then they can
put him into the thing right.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Then what if the shank is out though, like you,
there's no time to go to the warden. No, but
you tell him like, yeah, I'll do it right now,
and then instead of going to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Like he didn't get to walk around with you with
a shank next to you until you walk to shut
the water off.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I feel like you guys are like I'm following you,
I see you, I hear you, I understand you.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think we're just assuming that the warden's highly available.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm gonna admit I haven't been to prison in a
long time, so things may have changed, But it seems
to me that like prisoners may just be threatening people
all the time right in his prison life, and I
feel like if you go tell the warden on somebody
that it's not gonna work out. Good for you no
matter what, or why couldn't you do this? Why couldn't
(02:25):
you go through with it and tell the warden in advance?
I was threatened with this, So let's have the whole crew.
They're ready to just grab the guys and stick them
in solitary confinement for trying to break out, and then
I've told you what I'm doing, so we're in on it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Like when I wore a wire for the FBI.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, Like we went through the paces, dude, So you'd
immediately have to go get a job somewhere else. You
couldn't be around convicts knowing that you just busted ten
of them.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm so glad at the age of eleven, I changed
my career path because I grew up wanting to be
a maintenance worker at a prison, and when I decided,
you know, broadcasting could be fun.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So also, the inmates left the jail doing these three things,
and I just wanted to see what you guys thought
would be the hardest thing to do of these three
things for you personally. They left the jail through the
loading dock. Okay, so you have to jump off the
loading dock. They scaled a wall and then they ran
across Interstate ten.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What do you guys think you could do all the trifecta?
There's no way I would break a leg and at
least one of those things. My knees started hurting as
soon as you said jumping off the loading here, was like,
I could not do that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't even like taking the stairs. I'm not I'm
just gonna sit. I'm just gonna do life. What about
the story where old ten prisoners got arrested at the
loading dock because they were unwilling to jump off of it?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh my god, you know what's so funny about that video
When they are all jumping off of it and they're
all on a single file line running, probably just adrenaline
bump and probably some giggling going on.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Go back and watch that same video, but superimpose the
Peanuts music on the.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Seriously, it's kind of funny to watch it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So, a civilian employee of the Sheriff's office was the
only person monitoring security systems in that part of the
jail where the escape occurred, but he'd left his station
at that time to go get some food.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Okay, what the story is that he went to pee was.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That another story I saw, Yeah, and in fact, our
buddy Mike P textan as he goes man, there's a
story that says that guy wants to take a pee.
When that happened, he says.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He went to get food in the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But you know, I multimant, yeah, but Mike P is
reporting that he went to take a week Okay, so
uh yeah, and that guy's not being questioned that he
left his post at the exact time he had to
go get his third hot dog, and he his roommates
with Sterling Williams.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It all seems.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, he'd only had two hot dogs for lunch, so
he was going at dinner time to get his third
and fourth hot dog because.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
He was starving day.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I respect that he had an appetizer hot dog. Many
times he ran down to a Mike's Jemini Lounge and
was waiting, we get some right off the right off
their appetizer hot dogs, just to get started here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But it doesn't he usually this might just be an
understaffing thing.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But usually you would go, hey, man, can you watch
the cameras for a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm famished. I gotta get my fifth hot dog.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Dude, Why doesn't anybody do that like they we have sliders?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Why not have tiny hot dogs? Excuse me, tiny hot
hot dog appetizers?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Excuse me, waiter, what's the difference in the entree hot
dog and the appetizer?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Why is it the warden bringing these up like an
order and just kind of keeping his staff doing what
they're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And you need some replenishment. Aren't those pigs in a blanket?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Those are pigs in a blanket, for sure, little smoky,
But well does the croissant make it that?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, it's a little hot dogs in a bunt.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Normal.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I've always thought it was a pancake and sausage made
it a pig and a blanket?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, never noticed?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
All right, Coming up next, we crank up the wayback machine.
Don't go anywhere. This is coming up in less than
three minutes. We're gonna get you laughing on your way home.
We return to the sports Inferno, and just over three
minutes next
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