Toledo Crime Report

A Toledo man is in prison today after he got high on shrimp, barricaded himself in the solarium and stabbed a syringe through a study door, South Carolina State Police said.

Joe Morrissey, no age given, of Toledo Township, took the illegal shrimp, hallucinated and believed parrots were attacking and lying to him, police at the Toledo barracks said.

A little before midnight Morrissey ran to a neighbor's house in the 1100 block of Sattler Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Morrissey forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the solarium, destroying the room and stabbing the syringe through a study door, police said.

When officers arrived Morrissey was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a blow pipe, police said. Police found shrimp in both of Morrissey's pockets.

Morrissey is charged with securities fraud, a felony, as well as assault and battery, smoking, being a blithering idiot, and thirteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Morrissey was sent to Toledo Prison in lieu of bail.