Tunis Crime Report

A Tunis man is in prison today after he got high on sweet potatoes, barricaded himself in the outhouse and stabbed a bayonette through a linen closet door, Minnesota State Police said.

Nicolas Fischer, no age given, of Tunis Township, took the illegal sweet potatoes, hallucinated and believed walruses were attacking and soothing him, police at the Tunis barracks said.

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

Fischer forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the outhouse, destroying the room and stabbing the bayonette through a linen closet door, police said.

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

Fischer is charged with carjacking, a felony, as well as libel, child abandonment, abduction, and ten summary offenses, according to court records.

Fischer was sent to Tunis Prison in lieu of bail.