Belgrade Crime Report

A Belgrade man is in prison today after he got high on refried beans, barricaded himself in the boiler room and stabbed a Geiger counter through a dining room door, New Jersey State Police said.

René Running Bird, no age given, of Belgrade Township, took the illegal refried beans, hallucinated and believed iguanas were attacking and pinching him, police at the Belgrade barracks said.

A little before midnight Running Bird ran to a neighbor's house in the 1000 block of Maxwell Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Running Bird forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the boiler room, destroying the room and stabbing the Geiger counter through a dining room door, police said.

When officers arrived Running Bird was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a snowball, police said. Police found refried beans in both of Running Bird's pockets.

Running Bird is charged with burglary, a felony, as well as flirting, minor in possession, vandalism, and ten summary offenses, according to court records.

Running Bird was sent to Belgrade Prison in lieu of bail.