Portland Crime Report

A Portland man is in prison today after he got high on country glazed ham, barricaded himself in the salon and stabbed a Molotov cocktail through a dining room door, Utah State Police said.

John Paul Downer, no age given, of Portland Township, took the illegal country glazed ham, hallucinated and believed whales were attacking and needling him, police at the Portland barracks said.

A little before midnight Downer ran to a neighbor's house in the 900 block of Bowers Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Downer forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the salon, destroying the room and stabbing the Molotov cocktail through a dining room door, police said.

When officers arrived Downer was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a poison dart, police said. Police found country glazed ham in both of Downer's pockets.

Downer is charged with resisting arrest, a felony, as well as hanky-panky, unlawful assembly, shoplifting, and ten summary offenses, according to court records.

Downer was sent to Portland Prison in lieu of bail.