Peking Crime Report

A Peking man is in prison today after he got high on chicken pot pie, barricaded himself in the pantry and stabbed a hatchet through an outhouse door, New Jersey State Police said.

Bob Andrews, no age given, of Peking Township, took the illegal chicken pot pie, hallucinated and believed lizards were attacking and smacking him, police at the Peking barracks said.

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

Andrews forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the pantry, destroying the room and stabbing the hatchet through an outhouse door, police said.

When officers arrived Andrews was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a scalpel, police said. Police found chicken pot pie in both of Andrews's pockets.

Andrews is charged with incitement, a felony, as well as embezzlement, murder, putting the thumb to the nose, and twelve summary offenses, according to court records.

Andrews was sent to Peking Prison in lieu of bail.