 A Louisville man lodged in the Pike County Detention Center on a misdemeanor assault charge out of Floyd County is now facing an attempted escape charge. 18-year-old Bruce Cordell allegedly broke out of his pod through a ventilation shaft. The 6'5", 245 pound Cordell was caught after allegedly falling through the sheet rock ceiling in the women's isolation area of the detention center. Our guard Angie Dotson was up there and she heard a commotion and she went over and opened the door up and when she did she saw Mr. Cordell standing there in the hallway. He had had a lot of sheet rock on him and they was sheet rock laying in the floor and he was not injured in any way he wasn't hurt so you know it's just another attempt and a lot of people asked me says well does this surprise you and I tell people you know all the time nothing surprises me anymore. Pike jailer Freddie Lewis said there was nowhere for Cordell to escape once he got up in the ceiling. He could not have gotten anywhere no I guess you know probably if our inmates watches this they need to understand that you know they need to quit watching the movies of how they escape because they they can't do it here through ceiling tiles you know. One woman who claims to have been an inmate in the women's isolation area at the time of the incident described what may have led Cordell to getting caught out of his pod. She said she and other women in the isolation area were communicating with the men in Cordell's pod. Them boys was hollering through the walls and they could hear us girls hollering back you know and I reckon they was trying to get down there and get to the women through the wall and they was climbing through the ceiling and all of a sudden the ceiling gave way the dude fell through his little legs was a dangling and then here come about 1500 guards. She said Cordell may have had romance on his mind because they couldn't get into ourselves so I guess they just got bored wanting to see some women. Cordell remains lodged in the Pike County Detention Center reporting in Pikeville for EKB news. I'm Chris Anderson.