APFOX 8 News received this press release from the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office Monday evening:
A 16-year-old New Orleans male escaped the St. Bernard Parish Juvenile Detention Center in Chalmette on Sunday afternoon but was caught about an hour later on a Chalmette street several blocks away, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.
The teen, who was being held in a carjacking incident in Chalmette more than a year ago, climbed several fences just before 6 p.m. to escape during a period he and other youths were allowed out of the detention center building on Paris Road. The JVC is next to the adult Parish Prison.
The boy was found and taken into custody about an hour later, several blocks away, in the 300 block of West Grand Hommes.
Sheriff Pohlmann said the escapee, whose name wasn't released because he is still a minor, suffered several lacerations from climbing the fences to get out and he was taken to University Hospital for medical treatment and later returned to the Juvenile Detention Center.
Also, in the same incident a second detainee at the detention center, a 14-year-old boy, attempted to escape with the other teen-ager but didn't make it out before he was stopped. That boy is from the Opelousas area and was being held for an agency from that area, the sheriff said.
