Amarillo Crime Report

An Amarillo man is in prison today after he got high on mashed potatoes, barricaded himself in the front porch and stabbed a water balloon through a corridor door, Washington State Police said.

Raymond André, no age given, of Amarillo Township, took the illegal mashed potatoes, hallucinated and believed phantoms were attacking and calling the cops on him, police at the Amarillo barracks said.

A little before midnight André ran to a neighbor's house in the 1300 block of Eklund Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

André forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the front porch, destroying the room and stabbing the water balloon through a corridor door, police said.

When officers arrived André was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a syringe, police said. Police found mashed potatoes in both of André's pockets.

André is charged with malicious mischief, a felony, as well as indecent exposure, solicitation, perjury, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

André was sent to Amarillo Prison in lieu of bail.