A 31-year-old New Orleans woman who walked out of the Orleans Parish jail lock-up on Monday Nov 23, 2009 was apprehended a day later by criminal sheriff’s deputies at an eastern New Orleans apartment building. Torie T. Smith’s jail break was hardly the stuff of a hard thought out plan. She was able to leave the jail’s Intake and Processing Center after two steel doors were left open by a police officer who had entered the facility just moments before, Smith was brought into the jail about two hours before her escape. She was being booked with aggravated battery in connection with an incident involving her boyfriend, She has been there in the jail for many, many things in the past. A videotape of the escape released by Criminal Sheriff Marlin Gusman showed that on Monday Nov 23, 2009 just before 4:40 pm, an unidentified New Orleans police officer failed to lock two doors that lead to the jail lock-up’s central holding area. That officer had booked another suspect about 45 minutes earlier and was trying to quickly retrieve an affidavit he had left with the jail paperwork, Gusman said. Torie Smith, who escaped as she was being booked into Orleans Parish Prison, has been captured. “I think what happened is he was in a rush and he didn’t want to be slowed down,” Gusman said. “She was probably watching him and then able to exit when the opportunity arose.” NOPD spokesman Bob Young said the department’s Public Integrity Bureau will look at the officer’s actions. He declined to <b>…</b>