Last inmate from Orleans Justice Center breakout captured in Atlanta

Derrick Groves, the last of 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice Center in May, was captured Wednesday after a brief standoff at a southwest Atlanta home, federal and local authorities said. U.S. Marshals and an Atlanta Police Department SWAT team took Groves into custody after receiving a tip that led officers to the residence, where he was found hiding in a crawl space, Deputy U.S. Marshal Brian Fair said.

Groves, 28, had been on the run for nearly five months following the May 16 breakout in which 10 men removed a toilet from a cell, crawled through a hole in a wall and scaled a barbed wire fence to flee. Surveillance footage showed the group running into the night, and jail officials later found graffiti above the escape hole reading "To Easy LoL," according to images released by the sheriff's office. Nine of the escapees were recaptured within six weeks, mostly in Louisiana; Groves remained at large until Wednesday.

At the time of the escape Groves was held on second degree murder and attempted second degree murder charges. He was convicted in 2024 of second degree murder in a shooting that prosecutors say killed two people at a block party and faces life...