By C1 Staff
SPOKANE, Wash. – Authorities have confirmed that bedsheets hanging from the Spokane County Jail were part of an escape attempt by an inmate.
CBS News reports that the inmate, James Henrikson, hoped to climb down from the fifth floor of the jail, but staff noticed the sheets coming out of the cell window and locked down the facility.
The two occupants of the cell were immediately accounted for.
The FBI is now investigating the incident.
Henrikson is currently awaiting trial in a murder-for-hire plot involving himself and his old business partner, Doug Carlile.
Carlile was shot and killed in 2013 by an intruder, who was paid by Henrikson, according to prosecutors.
Henrikson also faces illegal weapons charges.
Henrikson also attempted to escape from the jail in July, when he tried to recruit other inmates in exchange for hefty cash payment.
He had hoped to have a team of inmates to help break him out during a transport to one of his court dates. He had planned to have the inmates use “guns, grenades and squirt guns full of gasoline.”