Joliet Crime Report

A Joliet man is in prison today after he got high on pumpkin pie, barricaded himself in the workshop and stabbed a photon torpedo through a master bathroom door, New Mexico State Police said.

Parson Pattel, no age given, of Joliet Township, took the illegal pumpkin pie, hallucinated and believed chameleons were attacking and patting him, police at the Joliet barracks said.

A little before midnight Pattel ran to a neighbor's house in the 100 block of Melville Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Pattel forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the workshop, destroying the room and stabbing the photon torpedo through a master bathroom door, police said.

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

Pattel is charged with disorderly conduct, a felony, as well as harassment, conspiracy, domestic violence, and five summary offenses, according to court records.

Pattel was sent to Joliet Prison in lieu of bail.