HAHNVILLE – A prisoner who escaped from the Nelson Coleman Correctional Facility early Tuesday morning is back in custody.
Charles Conrad III, who climbed a fence while working a kitchen detail at the facility, was located and apprehended by members of the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office, the Kenner Police Department and the U.S. Marshal’s Gulf Coast Regional Task Force. He was captured at the Travel Best hotel on Veterans Boulevard in Kenner.
Authorities are still searching for Erica Williams, the woman who is believed to have helped Conrad escape. Anyone with any information on Williams is asked to contact the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office by calling 911 or 985-783-6807.