CENTRAL - A man was rescued by police officers Thursday night after falling into a drainage ditch in Central the night before. 

The Central Police Department said that a person came into the building the night of July 6 and told officers that his brother had been missing since the night before. 

Two Central police officers and East Baton Rouge Parish deputies did a grid search around the area the man was last seen and found him in a deep drainage ditch covered by leaves and grass.

During the ride to a hospital, the man told officers that he fell into the ditch around 1:30 a.m. the previous day and spent an entire night and whole next day in the ditch until being found at 10:30 p.m.