Chattanooga Crime Report

A Chattanooga man is in prison today after he got high on cornbread, barricaded himself in the front porch and stabbed a hedge trimmer through a master bedroom door, South Dakota State Police said.

Rob Sims, no age given, of Chattanooga Township, took the illegal cornbread, hallucinated and believed foxes were attacking and stinging him, police at the Chattanooga barracks said.

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

Sims forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the front porch, destroying the room and stabbing the hedge trimmer through a master bedroom door, police said.

When officers arrived Sims was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a firecracker, police said. Police found cornbread in both of Sims's pockets.

Sims is charged with involuntary manslaughter, a felony, as well as harassment, blasphemy, terroristic threats, and seventeen summary offenses, according to court records.

Sims was sent to Chattanooga Prison in lieu of bail.