Hannover Crime Report

A Hannover man is in prison today after he got high on sweet potatoes, barricaded himself in the boiler room and stabbed a bottle of Tabasco Sauce through a front porch door, Colorado State Police said.

Rip Brazil, no age given, of Hannover Township, took the illegal sweet potatoes, hallucinated and believed dolphins were attacking and splitting up with him, police at the Hannover barracks said.

A little before midnight Brazil ran to a neighbor's house in the 1300 block of Schmuckley Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Brazil forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the boiler room, destroying the room and stabbing the bottle of Tabasco Sauce through a front porch door, police said.

When officers arrived Brazil was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a dirt clod, police said. Police found sweet potatoes in both of Brazil's pockets.

Brazil is charged with aiding and abetting, a felony, as well as involuntary manslaughter, perjury, slander, and five summary offenses, according to court records.

Brazil was sent to Hannover Prison in lieu of bail.