Man cleaning jail trapped for 12 hours

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) - A man doing cleaning work inside a northern Indiana jail says he was trapped inside a cell for 12 hours before anyone came looking for him.

Scott Roberts, 40, of Elkhart said he was at the Elkhart County Jail on Saturday doing community service work for a drunken driving charge and was assigned to clean an unoccupied group of cells.

He became trapped when the mop bucket propping open one of the doors spilled and the door slammed shut.

Roberts said he waved a mop at a security camera for about an hour without any results. It wasn't until after family members arrived at the jail looking for him that a guard found him about 10:30 p.m.

Sheriff's department spokesman Trevor Wendzonka said an internal investigation has been started.