Rome Crime Report

A Rome man is in prison today after he got high on tuna casserole, barricaded himself in the solarium and stabbed a flask through an oubliette door, Tennessee State Police said.

Wallace Stoker, no age given, of Rome Township, took the illegal tuna casserole, hallucinated and believed lemurs were attacking and frightening him, police at the Rome barracks said.

A little before midnight Stoker ran to a neighbor's house in the 2200 block of Papadopoulos Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Stoker forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the solarium, destroying the room and stabbing the flask through an oubliette door, police said.

When officers arrived Stoker was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a potato masher, police said. Police found tuna casserole in both of Stoker's pockets.

Stoker is charged with probation violation, a felony, as well as drug possession, hanky-panky, blasphemy, and nineteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Stoker was sent to Rome Prison in lieu of bail.