Tehran Crime Report

A Tehran man is in prison today after he got high on potatoes and gravy, barricaded himself in the guest room and stabbed a knife through a workshop door, Montana State Police said.

Benjamin Thurman, no age given, of Tehran Township, took the illegal potatoes and gravy, hallucinated and believed bats were attacking and heckling him, police at the Tehran barracks said.

A little before midnight Thurman ran to a neighbor's house in the 200 block of Remington Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Thurman forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the guest room, destroying the room and stabbing the knife through a workshop door, police said.

When officers arrived Thurman was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a butterfly net, police said. Police found potatoes and gravy in both of Thurman's pockets.

Thurman is charged with larceny, a felony, as well as child abandonment, voluntary manslaughter, fraud, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Thurman was sent to Tehran Prison in lieu of bail.