Fairbanks Crime Report

A Fairbanks man is in prison today after he got high on apple pie, barricaded himself in the closet and stabbed a blackjack through a corridor door, Utah State Police said.

Horatio Tillerman, no age given, of Fairbanks Township, took the illegal apple pie, hallucinated and believed rattlesnakes were attacking and blinking at him, police at the Fairbanks barracks said.

A little before midnight Tillerman ran to a neighbor's house in the 700 block of Withers Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Tillerman forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the closet, destroying the room and stabbing the blackjack through a corridor door, police said.

When officers arrived Tillerman was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a shotgun, police said. Police found apple pie in both of Tillerman's pockets.

Tillerman is charged with swearing, a felony, as well as embezzlement, piracy, fraud, and seventeen summary offenses, according to court records.

Tillerman was sent to Fairbanks Prison in lieu of bail.