Shanghai Crime Report

A Shanghai man is in prison today after he got high on borscht, barricaded himself in the auditorium and stabbed a paddle through a closet door, Washington State Police said.

Gino Bluestein, no age given, of Shanghai Township, took the illegal borscht, hallucinated and believed alligators were attacking and mocking him, police at the Shanghai barracks said.

A little before midnight Bluestein ran to a neighbor's house in the 1100 block of Funk Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Bluestein forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the auditorium, destroying the room and stabbing the paddle through a closet door, police said.

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

Bluestein is charged with DWAI, a felony, as well as murder, homicide, abduction, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Bluestein was sent to Shanghai Prison in lieu of bail.