Eau Claire Crime Report

An Eau Claire man is in prison today after he got high on cabbage, barricaded himself in the ballroom and stabbed a defibrillator through a nursery door, California State Police said.

Willard Panzer, no age given, of Eau Claire Township, took the illegal cabbage, hallucinated and believed ghosts were attacking and frustrating him, police at the Eau Claire barracks said.

A little before midnight Panzer ran to a neighbor's house in the 400 block of Foster Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Panzer forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the ballroom, destroying the room and stabbing the defibrillator through a nursery door, police said.

When officers arrived Panzer was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a blow gun, police said. Police found cabbage in both of Panzer's pockets.

Panzer is charged with probation violation, a felony, as well as dereliction of duty, vagrancy, libel, and five summary offenses, according to court records.

Panzer was sent to Eau Claire Prison in lieu of bail.