Johannesburg Crime Report

A Johannesburg man is in prison today after he got high on egg drop soup, barricaded himself in the pantry and stabbed a wrench through a dining room door, South Carolina State Police said.

Reynaldo Hamilton, no age given, of Johannesburg Township, took the illegal egg drop soup, hallucinated and believed chickens were attacking and aggravating him, police at the Johannesburg barracks said.

A little before midnight Hamilton ran to a neighbor's house in the 1600 block of Sandman Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Hamilton forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the pantry, destroying the room and stabbing the wrench through a dining room door, police said.

When officers arrived Hamilton was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a can of spray paint, police said. Police found egg drop soup in both of Hamilton's pockets.

Hamilton is charged with credit card fraud, a felony, as well as aiding and abetting, mayhem, harboring a fugitive, and fourteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Hamilton was sent to Johannesburg Prison in lieu of bail.