Sheriff hunting for last inmate who escaped from Louisiana jail

OPELOUSAS, La.

(AP) — Authorities hunted Saturday for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall.

“We would prefer that he surrender himself peaceably,” St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J.

Guidroz said in a statement, “but we will not rest until he is captured.”

Detectives and SWAT officers were following leads Saturday in pursui…