Ottawa Crime Report

An Ottawa man is in prison today after he got high on roast beef, barricaded himself in the boiler room and stabbed a flashlight through a basement door, Montana State Police said.

Hugh Normal, no age given, of Ottawa Township, took the illegal roast beef, hallucinated and believed quails were attacking and believing him, police at the Ottawa barracks said.

A little before midnight Normal ran to a neighbor's house in the 1400 block of Weatherford Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Normal forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the boiler room, destroying the room and stabbing the flashlight through a basement door, police said.

When officers arrived Normal was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a ukulele, police said. Police found roast beef in both of Normal's pockets.

Normal is charged with escape from lawful custody, a felony, as well as malicious mischief, probation violation, smoking, and thirteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Normal was sent to Ottawa Prison in lieu of bail.