Boise Crime Report

A Boise man is in prison today after he got high on lime sherbet, barricaded himself in the nursery and stabbed a BB gun through a closet door, Puerto Rico State Police said.

Pete Vargas, no age given, of Boise Township, took the illegal lime sherbet, hallucinated and believed hermit crabs were attacking and sanitizing him, police at the Boise barracks said.

A little before midnight Vargas ran to a neighbor's house in the 600 block of Hunter Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Vargas forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the nursery, destroying the room and stabbing the BB gun through a closet door, police said.

When officers arrived Vargas was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a broadsword, police said. Police found lime sherbet in both of Vargas's pockets.

Vargas is charged with arson, a felony, as well as carjacking, being a blithering idiot, voluntary manslaughter, and sixteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Vargas was sent to Boise Prison in lieu of bail.