Lima Crime Report

A Lima man is in prison today after he got high on Hamburger Helper, barricaded himself in the boiler room and stabbed a sickle through a rec room door, Texas State Police said.

Dick Pence, no age given, of Lima Township, took the illegal Hamburger Helper, hallucinated and believed German Shepherds were attacking and pinching him, police at the Lima barracks said.

A little before midnight Pence ran to a neighbor's house in the 700 block of Koch Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Pence forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the boiler room, destroying the room and stabbing the sickle through a rec room door, police said.

When officers arrived Pence was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a magic spell, police said. Police found Hamburger Helper in both of Pence's pockets.

Pence is charged with theft, a felony, as well as fashion faux-pas, being ugly in public, voluntary manslaughter, and eleven summary offenses, according to court records.

Pence was sent to Lima Prison in lieu of bail.