Mesa Crime Report

A Mesa man is in prison today after he got high on smoked salmon, barricaded himself in the rec room and stabbed a ukulele through a pantry door, Minnesota State Police said.

Eddie Gates, no age given, of Mesa Township, took the illegal smoked salmon, hallucinated and believed pigeons were attacking and outrunning him, police at the Mesa barracks said.

A little before midnight Gates ran to a neighbor's house in the 2500 block of Witherspoon Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Gates forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the rec room, destroying the room and stabbing the ukulele through a pantry door, police said.

When officers arrived Gates was uncooperative and had to be subdued with an épée, police said. Police found smoked salmon in both of Gates's pockets.

Gates is charged with involuntary manslaughter, a felony, as well as cursing, assault with a deadly weapon, assault and battery, and thirteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Gates was sent to Mesa Prison in lieu of bail.