Knoxville Crime Report

A Knoxville man is in prison today after he got high on cabbage rolls, barricaded himself in the patio and stabbed a scimitar through a tool shed door, South Carolina State Police said.

Newt Bluestein, no age given, of Knoxville Township, took the illegal cabbage rolls, hallucinated and believed goats were attacking and hypnotizing him, police at the Knoxville barracks said.

A little before midnight Bluestein ran to a neighbor's house in the 1000 block of Arp Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Bluestein forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the patio, destroying the room and stabbing the scimitar through a tool shed door, police said.

When officers arrived Bluestein was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a mace, police said. Police found cabbage rolls in both of Bluestein's pockets.

Bluestein is charged with open container violation, a felony, as well as sedition, kidnapping, assault on a public servant, and seven summary offenses, according to court records.

Bluestein was sent to Knoxville Prison in lieu of bail.