Torrance Crime Report

A Torrance man is in prison today after he got high on ceviche, barricaded himself in the kitchen and stabbed a poison dart through a cage door, Oregon State Police said.

Demetrius Bergstrom, no age given, of Torrance Township, took the illegal ceviche, hallucinated and believed toads were attacking and frustrating him, police at the Torrance barracks said.

A little before midnight Bergstrom ran to a neighbor's house in the 2100 block of Yastremski Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Bergstrom forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the kitchen, destroying the room and stabbing the poison dart through a cage door, police said.

When officers arrived Bergstrom was uncooperative and had to be subdued with an axe, police said. Police found ceviche in both of Bergstrom's pockets.

Bergstrom is charged with eavesdropping, a felony, as well as evading arrest, assault on a public servant, vagrancy, and fifteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Bergstrom was sent to Torrance Prison in lieu of bail.