Knoxville Crime Report

A Knoxville man is in prison today after he got high on pumpkin pie, barricaded himself in the tool shed and stabbed a butterfly net through a billiard room door, Illinois State Police said.

Morrie Shoemaker, no age given, of Knoxville Township, took the illegal pumpkin pie, hallucinated and believed mustangs were attacking and kissing him, police at the Knoxville barracks said.

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

Shoemaker forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the tool shed, destroying the room and stabbing the butterfly net through a billiard room door, police said.

When officers arrived Shoemaker was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a lance, police said. Police found pumpkin pie in both of Shoemaker's pockets.

Shoemaker is charged with conduct unbecoming, a felony, as well as eavesdropping, bribery, malicious mischief, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Shoemaker was sent to Knoxville Prison in lieu of bail.