An inmate at the Osceola County Jail was found with six pieces of crack cocaine hidden in a balled up pair of socks Wednesday.

James Townsend, 26, had been arrested for disorderly intoxication around 11 p.m. Sunday. At around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, a jail sergeant was told that Townsend had the cocaine.

A search of Townsend's cell was conducted the following morning, at 5:50 a.m. All the inmates were ordered to exit their cells. Townsend was holding a balled up pair of socks he refused to put down. Instead, he tried to put them on, but officers found a small brown cigar tube containing the crack cocaine inside the socks.

The Osceola County Sheriff's Office deputies confirmed that the rocks were crack cocaine and seized the tube as evidence.

Townsend told a deputy that he didn't know whose crack it was and didn't “know what was going on,” according to the Sheriff's Office report.

Sgt. Michael Negron, who reported the contraband and supervised the search of Townsend's cell, was one of four jail employees who recently received a written warning as a result of the escape of inmate Michael Rigby in February. Shortly after, 16 jail employees were fired and two others resigned for failing to follow procedures that might have prevented the escape.