 Appalachian Wireless now has new forward pay prices where you can pay up front and get the data and features you design. Five gigabytes of data, just $39.99. Unlimited, just $79.99. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Appalachian. 38-year-old Lavelle McCarty, a Johnson County inmate, was indicted this week by a Pott County grand jury on a kidnapping charge after allegedly attempting to escape from authorities while being treated at Packle Medical Center. Lavelle McCarty, also known as Shelly Ferguson of Sitka, was in the custody of the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center while being treated at Packle Medical Center last week. Pike Commonwealth's attorney Rick Bartley said McCarty attempted to escape from custody while she was a patient at the hospital and allegedly attempted to take the corrections officer guarding her hostage with a plastic knife and a roll of medical tape. She apparently tricked the correctional officer that was there with her by saying that she needed to use the bathroom and when they took the restraints off her handcuffs, she emerged from the bathroom and attacked the woman that was guarding her from the detention center. She apparently put a plastic knife to her throat and told the woman that she would cut her throat unless she allowed her to escape. The officer did not know it was a plastic knife because it happened so quickly. Also, the woman had stolen a roll of medical tape and began taping the guard up around her head and face and mouth to facilitate the escape. The alleged escape attempt was foiled after the officer fought back and others intervened. Authorities are now trying to figure out what to do with McCarty. She was being held at Big Sandy on charges out of Johnson County and also on a felony warrant out of Ohio. We're contacting the officers in Johnson County as well as we're going to try to make contact with the officials in Ohio to determine do they want to come and get her and take her back to her to face charges or do we need to process all of our charges first and then let them come and get her after we finish with her. And no determination has been made on that yet because this incident did just happen a few days ago and we're all trying to coordinate our efforts. McCarty was indicted on felony charges including kidnapping and third degree assault. The kidnapping charge that McCarty now faces is a class B felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. In Pikeville, Chris Anderson, EKB News.