Knoxville Crime Report

A Knoxville man is in prison today after he got high on corn on the cob, barricaded himself in the lounge and stabbed a flamethrower through an outhouse door, Arkansas State Police said.

Morris Emmons, no age given, of Knoxville Township, took the illegal corn on the cob, hallucinated and believed lovebirds were attacking and dating him, police at the Knoxville barracks said.

A little before midnight Emmons ran to a neighbor's house in the 1900 block of Stetson Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Emmons forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the lounge, destroying the room and stabbing the flamethrower through an outhouse door, police said.

When officers arrived Emmons was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a shiv, police said. Police found corn on the cob in both of Emmons's pockets.

Emmons is charged with wire fraud, a felony, as well as being a blithering idiot, unlawful assembly, lewd conduct, and eleven summary offenses, according to court records.

Emmons was sent to Knoxville Prison in lieu of bail.