Chula Vista Crime Report

A Chula Vista man is in prison today after he got high on cherries jubilee, barricaded himself in the pantry and stabbed a golf club through a master bathroom door, Vermont State Police said.

Franklin Bender, no age given, of Chula Vista Township, took the illegal cherries jubilee, hallucinated and believed bats were attacking and correcting him, police at the Chula Vista barracks said.

A little before midnight Bender ran to a neighbor's house in the 1100 block of Holloman Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Bender forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the pantry, destroying the room and stabbing the golf club through a master bathroom door, police said.

When officers arrived Bender was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a Bowie knife, police said. Police found cherries jubilee in both of Bender's pockets.

Bender is charged with vagrancy, a felony, as well as terroristic threats, manslaughter, telemarketing fraud, and fifteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Bender was sent to Chula Vista Prison in lieu of bail.