Salem Crime Report

A Salem man is in prison today after he got high on chicken soup, barricaded himself in the garage and stabbed a pair of scissors through a workshop door, Oklahoma State Police said.

Ivan Powers, no age given, of Salem Township, took the illegal chicken soup, hallucinated and believed hamsters were attacking and stepping on him, police at the Salem barracks said.

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

Powers forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the garage, destroying the room and stabbing the pair of scissors through a workshop door, police said.

When officers arrived Powers was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a ukulele, police said. Police found chicken soup in both of Powers's pockets.

Powers is charged with assault on a public servant, a felony, as well as false reporting, insurance fraud, harboring a fugitive, and four summary offenses, according to court records.

Powers was sent to Salem Prison in lieu of bail.