BREAKING NEWS Antoine Massey is captured by police after breaking out of New Orleans jail with nine other inmates
A serial-escapee who fled a jail in New Orleans has been apprehended over a month after he escaped along with nine other inmates.
Antoine Massey, 33, was arrested in New Orleans on Friday, leaving only Derrick Groves as the last escapee on the run.
He was captured in a rental property in the Hollygrove neighborhood in the Louisiana city, just miles from where he made his brazen escape on May 16.
Authorities said Massey was taken into custody without incident after New Orleans cops surrounded him.
Deputy US Marshal Brian Fair told CNN that it was a 'peaceful' arrest, with an image from the detainment showing two heavily armed cops escorting a handcuffed Massey into custody.
Fair said that Massey's arrest came after investigators 'received a tip.'
During his six weeks on the run, Massey taunted cops as he shared videos to Instagram saying he was 'let out' of the jail, and pleaded with President Trump to pardon him.
The group's escape captured headlines as they taunted prison staff by writing 'too easy' on the wall as they slipped out of a cell toilet block before footage showed them sprinting to freedom.
Authorities had previously raided a home earlier this month following Massey's taunting Instagram video, but did not find the fugitive.
Massey has a long rap sheet that includes several prison escapes, including one in 2007 when he broke out of a juvenile detention center after being arrested for armed robbery and aggravated assault.
He was most recently in jail for alleged vehicle theft and domestic abuse involving strangulation.
In his Instagram videos while on the lam, Massey insisted he was innocent and held a document to the camera alleging that it was a stamped affidavit showing his ex-girlfriend Diamond White recanted her domestic abuse allegations.
White was subsequently arrested following Massey's escape as investigators alleged that she helped him evade the law.
With Massey back in custody, Groves remains the last of the 10 escapees to be at large. He was convicted in October of killing two people in 2018.
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