Clarksville Crime Report

A Clarksville man is in prison today after he got high on oatmeal, barricaded himself in the hall and stabbed a poison dart through a salon door, Virginia State Police said.

Devlin Carpenter, no age given, of Clarksville Township, took the illegal oatmeal, hallucinated and believed tarantulas were attacking and jumping on him, police at the Clarksville barracks said.

A little before midnight Carpenter ran to a neighbor's house in the 2000 block of Mason Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Carpenter forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the hall, destroying the room and stabbing the poison dart through a salon door, police said.

When officers arrived Carpenter was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a dirk, police said. Police found oatmeal in both of Carpenter's pockets.

Carpenter is charged with being a blithering idiot, a felony, as well as open container violation, tax evasion, fabrication of evidence, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Carpenter was sent to Clarksville Prison in lieu of bail.