Wichita Crime Report

A Wichita man is in prison today after he got high on roast beef, barricaded himself in the closet and stabbed a lasso through a family room door, Arizona State Police said.

Nathan Parsons, no age given, of Wichita Township, took the illegal roast beef, hallucinated and believed chimpanzees were attacking and pecking at him, police at the Wichita barracks said.

A little before midnight Parsons ran to a neighbor's house in the 1000 block of Bristol Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Parsons forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the closet, destroying the room and stabbing the lasso through a family room door, police said.

When officers arrived Parsons was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a howitzer, police said. Police found roast beef in both of Parsons's pockets.

Parsons is charged with cursing, a felony, as well as cursing, fabrication of evidence, amphetamine distribution, and thirteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Parsons was sent to Wichita Prison in lieu of bail.