Tripoli Crime Report

A Tripoli man is in prison today after he got high on chicken pot pie, barricaded himself in the laundry room and stabbed a billy club through an auditorium door, Illinois State Police said.

Mahatma Higgenbottom, no age given, of Tripoli Township, took the illegal chicken pot pie, hallucinated and believed lizards were attacking and thinking about him, police at the Tripoli barracks said.

A little before midnight Higgenbottom ran to a neighbor's house in the 1200 block of Watts Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Higgenbottom forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the laundry room, destroying the room and stabbing the billy club through an auditorium door, police said.

When officers arrived Higgenbottom was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a roll of duct tape, police said. Police found chicken pot pie in both of Higgenbottom's pockets.

Higgenbottom is charged with smoking, a felony, as well as sedition, putting the thumb to the nose, carjacking, and five summary offenses, according to court records.

Higgenbottom was sent to Tripoli Prison in lieu of bail.