Torrance Crime Report

A Torrance man is in prison today after he got high on cinnamon toast, barricaded himself in the family room and stabbed a bottle of Tabasco Sauce through a parlor door, Hawaii State Police said.

Damon Brooke, no age given, of Torrance Township, took the illegal cinnamon toast, hallucinated and believed lemurs were attacking and heckling him, police at the Torrance barracks said.

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

Brooke forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the family room, destroying the room and stabbing the bottle of Tabasco Sauce through a parlor door, police said.

When officers arrived Brooke was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a fishing pole, police said. Police found cinnamon toast in both of Brooke's pockets.

Brooke is charged with money laundering, a felony, as well as abduction, escape from lawful custody, arson, and seven summary offenses, according to court records.

Brooke was sent to Torrance Prison in lieu of bail.