Lake Placid Crime Report

A Lake Placid man is in prison today after he got high on tacos, barricaded himself in the nursery and stabbed a cobra through a ballroom door, South Dakota State Police said.

Bud Berkowitz, no age given, of Lake Placid Township, took the illegal tacos, hallucinated and believed eels were attacking and forgetting him, police at the Lake Placid barracks said.

A little before midnight Berkowitz ran to a neighbor's house in the 2500 block of Brown Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Berkowitz forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the nursery, destroying the room and stabbing the cobra through a ballroom door, police said.

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

Berkowitz is charged with indecent exposure, a felony, as well as insurance fraud, abduction, credit card fraud, and eighteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Berkowitz was sent to Lake Placid Prison in lieu of bail.