CUBA — A Crawford County inmate who failed to access the ceiling from his jail cell last month is now facing additional charges.

According to a probable cause statement, on Sept. 19, Dalton Wayne Lundy “jumped from the second tier of the Cpod.”

When he was taken into booking, his behavior allegedly escalated when he bobbed his ahead off the booking wall phone and then was seated in a restraint chair. After being released from the restraint chair, Lundy was placed in a padded jail cell, according to a court record. In his cell, he allegedly obscured the camera with his saliva and toilet paper.

“He then scaled the padded walls and ripped out the ceiling to the concrete trying to gain access to roof,” a probable cause statement noted. “He was placed back in the restraint chair and complained of the leg shackles being too tight.” 

When a detention officer tried to “readjust” the leg shackles, Lundy allegedly started to urinate on the officer. He went to another jail cell but his behavior only continued to intensify. Allegedly, he put his foot in the food port and then yanked wiring from the conduit after he “ascended to the security camera.”

Lundy ripped tiles from the ceiling, and attempted to leave via the roof. Upon his failed attempt, he was put back in the first jail cell.

“Due to the safeguards that we had above the ceiling, he never left his cell,” said Crawford County Sheriff Darin Layman. 

For last month’s attempted escape, Lundy is facing six new felony charges. Specifically, two counts of damage to the Department of Corrections building or property by an inmate, one count of endangering correctional employee/visitor/another, two counts of escape or attempted escape from confinement, and a single count of damage to jail/jail property. Lundy was originally booked in the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office on charges including multiple probation violations, possession of a controlled substance and a third offense of operating a vehicle on the highway without a license. 

“Unfortunately, our facility gets damaged all the time because inmates don’t want to be here,” Layman said. “It’s a tough job that my detention officers have to go through with the amount of verbal abuse and sometimes physical abuse that they take. At the end of the day, the safeguards that we have in place prevented him from getting any further than he did. Everything was caught on camera. My detention staff acted appropriately and were very quickly able to thwart any type of escape.”

Lundy remains in custody and his bond is currently set at $57,575. He had a scheduled court appearance on Tuesday (Oct. 14).