Ho Chi Minh City Crime Report

A Ho Chi Minh City man is in prison today after he got high on pancakes, barricaded himself in the bathroom and stabbed a hatchet through a basement door, South Carolina State Police said.

Otto Prescott, no age given, of Ho Chi Minh City Township, took the illegal pancakes, hallucinated and believed wolves were attacking and indoctrinating him, police at the Ho Chi Minh City barracks said.

A little before midnight Prescott ran to a neighbor's house in the 2100 block of Vintner Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Prescott forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the bathroom, destroying the room and stabbing the hatchet through a basement door, police said.

When officers arrived Prescott was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a Molotov cocktail, police said. Police found pancakes in both of Prescott's pockets.

Prescott is charged with spitting, a felony, as well as aiding and abetting, vandalism, solicitation, and eight summary offenses, according to court records.

Prescott was sent to Ho Chi Minh City Prison in lieu of bail.