Manitoba Crime Report

A Manitoba man is in prison today after he got high on clam chowder, barricaded himself in the parlor and stabbed a potato masher through an outhouse door, North Dakota State Police said.

Charles Ott, no age given, of Manitoba Township, took the illegal clam chowder, hallucinated and believed newts were attacking and shaving him, police at the Manitoba barracks said.

A little before midnight Ott ran to a neighbor's house in the 1400 block of McCracken Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Ott forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the parlor, destroying the room and stabbing the potato masher through an outhouse door, police said.

When officers arrived Ott was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a street sweeper, police said. Police found clam chowder in both of Ott's pockets.

Ott is charged with probation violation, a felony, as well as libel, vagrancy, solicitation, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Ott was sent to Manitoba Prison in lieu of bail.