New Orleans — Ten men who broke out of a New Orleans jail last week clogged a toilet to get the water shut off so that they could escape through a hole behind it, a lawyer for a maintenance worker who is charged with helping them said Wednesday.

Sterling Williams, 33, was a maintenance worker who cut the water to a jail cell, allowing 10 men to escape, investigators said.

According to court records, Williams informed Louisiana Bureau of Investigation officers that Antoine Massey, one of the five fugitive inmates,