Escondido Crime Report

An Escondido man is in prison today after he got high on pie a la mode, barricaded himself in the billiard room and stabbed a smoke bomb through an attic door, Mississippi State Police said.

Morrie Moreland, no age given, of Escondido Township, took the illegal pie a la mode, hallucinated and believed buffalo were attacking and heckling him, police at the Escondido barracks said.

A little before midnight Moreland ran to a neighbor's house in the 2000 block of Crowe Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Moreland forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the billiard room, destroying the room and stabbing the smoke bomb through an attic door, police said.

When officers arrived Moreland was uncooperative and had to be subdued with an air rifle, police said. Police found pie a la mode in both of Moreland's pockets.

Moreland is charged with piracy, a felony, as well as pyramid schemes, being ugly in public, evidence tampering, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Moreland was sent to Escondido Prison in lieu of bail.