Moscow Crime Report

A Moscow man is in prison today after he got high on pecan pie, barricaded himself in the parlor and stabbed a flask through a pool room door, Virginia State Police said.

Eddie Gomez, no age given, of Moscow Township, took the illegal pecan pie, hallucinated and believed coyotes were attacking and bonding with him, police at the Moscow barracks said.

A little before midnight Gomez ran to a neighbor's house in the 1600 block of Coleman Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Gomez forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the parlor, destroying the room and stabbing the flask through a pool room door, police said.

When officers arrived Gomez was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a mace, police said. Police found pecan pie in both of Gomez's pockets.

Gomez is charged with resisting arrest, a felony, as well as aiding and abetting, extortion, slander, and eighteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Gomez was sent to Moscow Prison in lieu of bail.