2026-04-30 1:04 AM UTC / 路透社
史蒂夫·戈尔曼 撰稿
2026年4月30日 1:04 AM UTC 更新于2小时前
摘要
- 即将卸任的警长苏珊·赫特森面临30项重罪指控
- 警长首席财务官被控20项罪名
- 10名囚犯越狱事件为美国史上最大规模越狱事件之一
4月29日（路透社）——新奥尔良警长苏珊·赫特森及其首席财务官周三被控渎职、妨碍司法公正及其他罪名，指控源于去年的10名囚犯越狱事件，该案为美国史上最大规模越狱事件之一。
根据路易斯安那州总检察长莉兹·默里尔发布的声明，一个专门负责调查2025年5月越狱事件的大陪审团提交了起诉书，指控赫特森30项重罪，其首席财务官比安卡·布朗面临20项指控。
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审理该案的法官为赫特森设定了30万美元保释金，为布朗设定了20万美元保释金。两人均被要求交出护照，并不得离开该州。
“尽管赫特森警长没有亲自为越狱者打开监狱大门，但她拒绝遵守基本法律要求，甚至在履行职责时未采取最基本的防范措施，这直接促成并助长了此次越狱事件，”默里尔在声明中说道。
奥尔良县警长办公室未立即对起诉书作出回应，路透社也无法立即联系到赫特森和比安卡的法律代表。目前尚不清楚两人是否会卸任。
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当选警长米歇尔·伍德福克定于下月初宣誓就职，接替赫特森。
5月16日，奥尔良县司法中心的10名在押人员通过将水槽和马桶从牢房墙壁上拆下，从墙体破洞处逃脱，该中心主要关押待审或待判刑人员。
当日例行点名时，工作人员发现这些囚犯失踪，其中部分人员涉嫌谋杀。最终10名越狱者全部被抓获。
在周三的指控公布前，已有十余人被控作为越狱事件的从犯，其中多人是该拘留中心的员工或在逃囚犯的亲属。其中包括一名应囚犯要求关闭了涉事牢房供水系统的维修工人。
赫特森被控14项在职渎职罪，外加多项共谋渎职、提交或维持虚假公共记录、共谋提交虚假记录、妨碍司法公正以及共谋妨碍司法公正的罪名。布朗也面临相同罪名的起诉。
赫特森是费城本地人，2021年12月当选奥尔良县警长，2022年5月2日宣誓就职，成为路易斯安那州首位非裔女性警长，也是新奥尔良有史以来首位女性警长。
她此前曾担任辩护律师和检察官，2007年至2010年担任洛杉矶警察局监察员，期间还负责监管当地拘留中心。
她于2010年被任命为新奥尔良独立警察监察员，并在该职位任职十年，协助推行了多项改革，包括成立调查团队调查警员枪击事件，以及推广警员随身摄像头的使用。
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New Orleans sheriff charged with criminal malfeasance in 2025 jailbreak
2026-04-30 1:04 AM UTC / Reuters
By Steve Gorman
April 30, 2026 1:04 AM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
Summary
- Outgoing Sheriff Susan Hutson indicted on 30 felony counts
- Sheriff’s chief financial officer charged with 20 counts
- Escape of 10 inmates marked one of biggest U.S. jailbreaks
April 29 (Reuters) – New Orleans Sheriff Susan Hutson and her chief financial officer were charged on Wednesday with criminal malfeasance, obstruction of justice and other charges stemming from last year’s escape of 10 inmates in one of the biggest jailbreaks in U.S. history.
A special grand jury convened to investigate the May 2025 breakout returned an indictment charging Hutson with 30 felony counts and her CFO, Bianka Brown, with 20 counts, according to a statement released by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill.
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The judge presiding over the case set bond at $300,000 for Hutson and $200,000 for Brown. Both were ordered to surrender their passports and are barred from leaving the state.
“While Sheriff Hutson did not personally open the doors of the jail for the escapees, her refusal to comply with basic legal requirements and to take even minimal precautions in the discharge of her duties directly contributed to and enabled the escape,” Murrill said in a statement.
There was no immediate response to the indictment from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, and legal representatives for Hutson and Bianka were not immediately known to Reuters. It was not clear whether the two would leave their posts.
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Sheriff-elect Michelle Woodfork is scheduled to be sworn in early next month to succeed Hutson.
Ten inmates housed at the Orleans Parish Justice Center, which mostly holds people awaiting trial or sentencing, escaped on May 16 by tearing a sink and toilet off a cell wall and fleeing through the resulting hole in the structure.
The escapees, some of them murder suspects, were discovered missing during a routine headcount that morning. All 10 were ultimately recaptured.
Before Wednesday, more than a dozen people were charged as accessories to the escape, many of them employees of the detention center or relatives of the runaway inmates. They included a maintenance worker who turned off the water supply to the breached cell at the inmates’ request.
Hutson was charged with 14 counts of malfeasance in office, plus multiple counts of conspiracy to commit malfeasance, filing or maintaining false public records, conspiracy to file false records, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Brown was indicted on the same offenses.
Hutson, a Philadelphia native, was elected sheriff of Orleans Parish in December 2021 and sworn in on May 2, 2022, becoming the first African-American woman to serve as a sheriff in Louisiana and the first woman ever to serve as sheriff in New Orleans.
She previously served as a defense attorney and prosecutor before becoming police monitor for the Los Angeles Police Department from 2007 to 2010, where she also oversaw local detention centers.
She was appointed as independent police monitor for New Orleans in 2010 and served in that post for a decade, helping institute such reforms as formation of an investigation team to probe officer-involved shootings and the use of officer-worn body cameras.
Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Lincoln Feast.
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