Derrick Groves escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans on May 16, 2025. He was part of a group of ten inmates who broke out through a hole in the wall behind a toilet. Groves evaded capture for nearly five months before being apprehended on October 8, 2025, in a crawl space beneath a residence in Atlanta, Georgia, following a coordinated law enforcement operation that included a brief standoff and the use of gas canisters to flush him out.
