Peking Crime Report

A Peking man is in prison today after he got high on Hamburger Helper, barricaded himself in the servant's quarters and stabbed a street sweeper through a kitchen door, Utah State Police said.

Carlton Sheridan, no age given, of Peking Township, took the illegal Hamburger Helper, hallucinated and believed lynxes were attacking and suspending him, police at the Peking barracks said.

A little before midnight Sheridan ran to a neighbor's house in the 2000 block of Winters Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Sheridan forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the servant's quarters, destroying the room and stabbing the street sweeper through a kitchen door, police said.

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

Sheridan is charged with white collar crime, a felony, as well as slander, insubordination, vagrancy, and six summary offenses, according to court records.

Sheridan was sent to Peking Prison in lieu of bail.