Billings Crime Report

A Billings man is in prison today after he got high on hot dogs, barricaded himself in the salon and stabbed an air rifle through a billiard room door, Minnesota State Police said.

Jim Sugarbaker, no age given, of Billings Township, took the illegal hot dogs, hallucinated and believed gazelles were attacking and soothing him, police at the Billings barracks said.

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

Sugarbaker forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the salon, destroying the room and stabbing the air rifle through a billiard room door, police said.

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

Sugarbaker is charged with extortion, a felony, as well as carjacking, larceny, fabrication of evidence, and six summary offenses, according to court records.

Sugarbaker was sent to Billings Prison in lieu of bail.