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Authorities announced that a fourth inmate has been apprehended after escaping from a New Orleans jail on Friday with 6 other inmates.
The U.S. Justice Department dropped a three-year civil rights investigation of Louisiana State Police on Wednesday.
A couple engaged to be married died in separate crashes hours apart on the same Louisiana road, leaving their young son behind, according to family and law enforcement.
In 2022, a probe was launched to see if state troopers have engaged in a pattern of excessive force and racial discrimination.
A fourth man was arrested four days after he and nine other inmates at the New Orleans jail broke free and fled, prompting a citywide manhunt and state-led investigations into the jail's operations and the local criminal justice system.
"We have had some leads in other states, unfortunately, those leads did not pan out," said state police leaders.
Hundreds of law enforcement officials are involved in a manhunt for five men who remain at large after a group of 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans-area jail in the early morning hours of May 16.