Riverside Crime Report

A Riverside man is in prison today after he got high on crab rangoon, barricaded himself in the workshop and stabbed an air rifle through an auditorium door, Missouri State Police said.

Leroy Yale, no age given, of Riverside Township, took the illegal crab rangoon, hallucinated and believed ponies were attacking and pulverizing him, police at the Riverside barracks said.

A little before midnight Yale ran to a neighbor's house in the 300 block of Cadwallader Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Yale forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the workshop, destroying the room and stabbing the air rifle through an auditorium door, police said.

When officers arrived Yale was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a rope, police said. Police found crab rangoon in both of Yale's pockets.

Yale is charged with dereliction of duty, a felony, as well as conduct unbecoming, forgery, harassment, and six summary offenses, according to court records.

Yale was sent to Riverside Prison in lieu of bail.