Sidney Crime Report

A Sidney man is in prison today after he got high on clam chowder, barricaded himself in the bedroom and stabbed a dirt clod through a den door, Washington State Police said.

Julian Hopkins, no age given, of Sidney Township, took the illegal clam chowder, hallucinated and believed buffalo were attacking and amusing him, police at the Sidney barracks said.

A little before midnight Hopkins ran to a neighbor's house in the 1900 block of Sitzman Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Hopkins forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the bedroom, destroying the room and stabbing the dirt clod through a den door, police said.

When officers arrived Hopkins was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a street sweeper, police said. Police found clam chowder in both of Hopkins's pockets.

Hopkins is charged with tax fraud, a felony, as well as escape from lawful custody, aggravated assault, fraud, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Hopkins was sent to Sidney Prison in lieu of bail.