London Crime Report

A London man is in prison today after he got high on beans, barricaded himself in the bathroom and stabbed a banjo through a bedroom door, North Dakota State Police said.

Sven Watson, no age given, of London Township, took the illegal beans, hallucinated and believed duck-billed platypi were attacking and glaring at him, police at the London barracks said.

A little before midnight Watson ran to a neighbor's house in the 700 block of Robinson Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Watson forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the bathroom, destroying the room and stabbing the banjo through a bedroom door, police said.

When officers arrived Watson was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a Millwall brick, police said. Police found beans in both of Watson's pockets.

Watson is charged with counterfeiting, a felony, as well as fraud, assault with a deadly weapon, vagrancy, and nine summary offenses, according to court records.

Watson was sent to London Prison in lieu of bail.