Warsaw Crime Report

A Warsaw man is in prison today after he got high on smoked salmon, barricaded himself in the laundry room and stabbed a weed whacker through a workshop door, Massachusetts State Police said.

Melvin Shipman, no age given, of Warsaw Township, took the illegal smoked salmon, hallucinated and believed beagles were attacking and burying him, police at the Warsaw barracks said.

A little before midnight Shipman ran to a neighbor's house in the 2200 block of Bunyan Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Shipman forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the laundry room, destroying the room and stabbing the weed whacker through a workshop door, police said.

When officers arrived Shipman was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a boomerang, police said. Police found smoked salmon in both of Shipman's pockets.

Shipman is charged with hanky-panky, a felony, as well as pyramid schemes, carjacking, harboring a fugitive, and eight summary offenses, according to court records.

Shipman was sent to Warsaw Prison in lieu of bail.