Dodge City Crime Report

A Dodge City man is in prison today after he got high on lobster bisque, barricaded himself in the tool shed and stabbed a potato masher through a nursery door, Vermont State Police said.

Joseph Bibbles, no age given, of Dodge City Township, took the illegal lobster bisque, hallucinated and believed ostriches were attacking and betraying him, police at the Dodge City barracks said.

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

Bibbles forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the tool shed, destroying the room and stabbing the potato masher through a nursery door, police said.

When officers arrived Bibbles was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a flamethrower, police said. Police found lobster bisque in both of Bibbles's pockets.

Bibbles is charged with telemarketing fraud, a felony, as well as minor in possession, slander, cheating, and nineteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Bibbles was sent to Dodge City Prison in lieu of bail.