Arvada Crime Report

An Arvada man is in prison today after he got high on sweet potatoes, barricaded himself in the master bathroom and stabbed a silver bullet through a family room door, New Jersey State Police said.

Russ Green, no age given, of Arvada Township, took the illegal sweet potatoes, hallucinated and believed bumblebees were attacking and disinfecting him, police at the Arvada barracks said.

A little before midnight Green ran to a neighbor's house in the 300 block of Buffalo Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Green forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the master bathroom, destroying the room and stabbing the silver bullet through a family room door, police said.

When officers arrived Green was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a dirt clod, police said. Police found sweet potatoes in both of Green's pockets.

Green is charged with blasphemy, a felony, as well as treason, tax fraud, vandalism, and five summary offenses, according to court records.

Green was sent to Arvada Prison in lieu of bail.