Dublin Crime Report

A Dublin man is in prison today after he got high on hot dogs, barricaded himself in the patio and stabbed a lightsaber through a servant's quarters door, Illinois State Police said.

Flash Radcliffe, no age given, of Dublin Township, took the illegal hot dogs, hallucinated and believed basset hounds were attacking and damaging him, police at the Dublin barracks said.

A little before midnight Radcliffe ran to a neighbor's house in the 1500 block of Badwell Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Radcliffe forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the patio, destroying the room and stabbing the lightsaber through a servant's quarters door, police said.

When officers arrived Radcliffe was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a grenade launcher, police said. Police found hot dogs in both of Radcliffe's pockets.

Radcliffe is charged with being a blithering idiot, a felony, as well as minor in possession, unlawful assembly, evading arrest, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Radcliffe was sent to Dublin Prison in lieu of bail.