Victoria Crime Report

A Victoria man is in prison today after he got high on squash blossom soup, barricaded himself in the guest room and stabbed a carbine through a billiard room door, Virgin Islands State Police said.

Craig Shapiro, no age given, of Victoria Township, took the illegal squash blossom soup, hallucinated and believed robots were attacking and scratching him, police at the Victoria barracks said.

A little before midnight Shapiro ran to a neighbor's house in the 1400 block of Miller Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Shapiro forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the guest room, destroying the room and stabbing the carbine through a billiard room door, police said.

When officers arrived Shapiro was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a hand sanitizer, police said. Police found squash blossom soup in both of Shapiro's pockets.

Shapiro is charged with vandalism, a felony, as well as eavesdropping, carjacking, being a blithering idiot, and fourteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Shapiro was sent to Victoria Prison in lieu of bail.