Escaped Inmate

Have you ever wondered who Louisiana's most wanted fugitives are? We have too, and we found out.

Jody Thomas Thrasher, a 47-year-old man who had been on the run since Sunday after escaping from Evangeline Parish Jail, reached out to KLFY News 10 to "tell his side of the story."

An inmate has been captured after fleeing the custody of the Lafayette Sheriff's Department while at a hospital Monday.

The man was previously being held in Claiborne Parish.

A prison van was stolen by a prisoner in Webster Parish early Friday morning.

One officer acting off of instinct, dove head-first over a staircase railing to stop him, and the whole incident was captured on video.

A warrant for simple escape was acquired for Perez after he escaped on Friday.

Thirty-five-year-old Roderick Duhon escaped custody while being returned to the Direct Supervision Unit on Willow Street.

The inmate took advantage of a hospital visit and escaped, though he was reportedly being guarded.

Police in Franklin are searching for an inmate who escaped from a holding area of the police department earlier Sunday.

Nobody likes going to the dentist...well, except for this guy.

Thursday afternoon, shortly after 1:30 p.m., 21-year-old Bryce Christopher Jackson escaped from a work detail in Cecilia near the Cecilia Library. He has now been captured.

COVINGTON, La. (AP) — A 26-year-old man, who escaped from St. Tammany Parish jail, has been arrested along with his girlfriend in a hotel in Hattiesburg, Miss. Authorities say Anthony Lance Alexius walked away from his work detail in the kitchen of the parish jail at approximately 11:15 a...

WINNSBORO, La. (AP) — A Franklin Parish inmate led deputies on a high speed chase while driving a parish vehicle after he escaped custody. Sheriff Kevin Cobb tells The News-Star Jimmy McCall, booked into Franklin Parish Detention Center on theft charges, was at the parish courthouse Tuesday for questioning...

State Police say Kyle Dore was captured on Mouton Cove Road south of Abbeville.

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — An inmate who escaped from the Transitional Work Program Facility in Raceland has been captured in Houma. Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said Monday that 37-year-old Michael Matherne escaped from custody sometime after 10 p...

A wild finish to an escaped inmate's run from the law. State Police say it all happened on I-10 near Sulphur.

The escaped inmate that's accused of robbing a bank yesterday has been captured. State Police say Brian Keith Soileau has been captured.

Two more people are arrested for helping out an escaped inmate.

Lafayette Police make two arrests, charging the pair with helping an escaped inmate.