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 OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. -- An Osceola County inmate, who already escaped once, was caught plotting to do it again. When guards searched Carlos Rosa's cell, they found the means to do it hidden inside a bar of soap.

Rosa is in high-security, solitary confinement, but somehow he got a hold of a staple and pencil. He used the pencil to drill a hole in a bar of soap to hide the staple, which he apparently planned to use later as a handcuff key.

When convicted felon Carlos Rosa was captured after escaping from the Osceola County jail last month, he told WFTV he didn't plan it, he just did it.

Osceola County sheriff's investigators said he apparently was going to try it again, this time with a plan to get admitted to a hospital and then escape by unlocking his handcuffs with his makeshift key.

That's what inmate Jose Davila told investigators Thursday night. According to the investigator's report, Rosa foiled his own plan by talking about it to Davila in Spanish within earshot of jail guard Rayjay Justiniano. The guard told supervisors and searched Rosa's cell with a metal detector. He noticed a bar of soap in Rosa's sink that it had grooves in it.

“They located a large metal staple inside the bar of soap,” said Twis Lizaswain, Osceola County Sheriff's Office.

Rosa told investigators he used the metal piece to clean his piercings and hid it because he knew it wasn't allowed. He denied planning another escape and then got upset and ended the conversation.

The jail guards appeared to handle the incident by the book, but a jail source told WFTV acting chief Raul Banasco berated them for calling the sheriff's office and sent out an email forbidding anyone to call the sheriff without his permission.

WFTV tried to talk to Banasco about it, but he said he was too busy.

Now there's another investigation to figure out how Rosa got a pencil and a staple into his high-security cell.

Changes are slow in coming to the Osceola County jail in the aftermath of two escapes. The first inmate, Michael Rigby, remains on the loose and the county commission chairman has called for a special workshop with the sheriff to discuss his possible takeover of the jail. That workshop hasn't been scheduled yet.

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