El Paso Crime Report

An El Paso man is in prison today after he got high on oyster on the half-shell, barricaded himself in the servant's quarters and stabbed a soldering iron through a closet door, Arkansas State Police said.

Barnabas Truman, no age given, of El Paso Township, took the illegal oyster on the half-shell, hallucinated and believed grizzly bears were attacking and glaring at him, police at the El Paso barracks said.

A little before midnight Truman ran to a neighbor's house in the 1800 block of Ackerman Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Truman forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the servant's quarters, destroying the room and stabbing the soldering iron through a closet door, police said.

When officers arrived Truman was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a spear, police said. Police found oyster on the half-shell in both of Truman's pockets.

Truman is charged with being a blithering idiot, a felony, as well as open container violation, public intoxication, smoking, and two summary offenses, according to court records.

Truman was sent to El Paso Prison in lieu of bail.