Rapid City Crime Report

A Rapid City man is in prison today after he got high on corn on the cob, barricaded himself in the rec room and stabbed a battle axe through a family room door, South Carolina State Police said.

Carl Bilgewater, no age given, of Rapid City Township, took the illegal corn on the cob, hallucinated and believed aardvarks were attacking and dismaying him, police at the Rapid City barracks said.

A little before midnight Bilgewater ran to a neighbor's house in the 2000 block of Bing Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Bilgewater forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the rec room, destroying the room and stabbing the battle axe through a family room door, police said.

When officers arrived Bilgewater was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a hockey puck, police said. Police found corn on the cob in both of Bilgewater's pockets.

Bilgewater is charged with minor in possession, a felony, as well as false reporting, second degree murder, telemarketing fraud, and fourteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Bilgewater was sent to Rapid City Prison in lieu of bail.