in her name to scam the government into paying out

Burton faces a felony charge for conspiracy to commit simple escape.Burton also allegedly “picked up” and transported another fugitive, Lenton Vanburen, to a relative’s home during his escape.

Burton began working at the jail in 2022 and was fired the following year after she was arrested on allegations of bringing a folding knife and a bag of Cheetos containing tobacco and marijuana into the jail. The charges were dropped in part due to her lack of criminal history, and she “successfully completed” a pretrial diversion program, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office told The Associated Press.“I categorically deny any involvement in introducing contraband into the jail or assisting in any escape,” Burton said May 30 in a text message to The Associated Press. “These allegations are false and I intend to fully defend myself through the proper legal channels.”Agents with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service coordinated Burton’s arrest after obtaining a warrant on May 27. She was taken into custody in the Plaquemines Parish jail, authorities said.

Burton and Groves “were in an on-again, off-again relationship for three years,” dating back to the time when she was still working in the jail, authorities said.“We will continue to pursue anyone and everyone who has aided and abetted these criminals. We will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you to the full extent of the law,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement. “We will arrest all aiders and abettors, and we will eventually get Antoine Massey and Derrick Groves back to prison where they belong.”

Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.

is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.The disobedience still comes with risk. Months after the protests halted, Iranian morality police returned to the streets.

There have been scattered videos of women and young girls being roughed up by officers in the time since. In 2023,in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf and later died in hospital. In July, activists say

in an attempt to avoid her car being impounded for her not wearing the hijab.FILE - An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf flashes a victory sign as two head-to-toe veiled women walk at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)