Madison Crime Report

A Madison man is in prison today after he got high on pumpkin pie, barricaded himself in the conservatory and stabbed a syringe through a boiler room door, Washington State Police said.

Arthur Kraft, no age given, of Madison Township, took the illegal pumpkin pie, hallucinated and believed tsetse flies were attacking and frowning at him, police at the Madison barracks said.

A little before midnight Kraft ran to a neighbor's house in the 400 block of Peterson Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Kraft forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the conservatory, destroying the room and stabbing the syringe through a boiler room door, police said.

When officers arrived Kraft was uncooperative and had to be subdued with an air rifle, police said. Police found pumpkin pie in both of Kraft's pockets.

Kraft is charged with first degree murder, a felony, as well as being a blithering idiot, public intoxication, spitting, and fifteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Kraft was sent to Madison Prison in lieu of bail.