Waterloo Crime Report

A Waterloo man is in prison today after he got high on hamburgers, barricaded himself in the foyer and stabbed a lead pipe through a parlor door, Nebraska State Police said.

Baldwin Van Bloom, no age given, of Waterloo Township, took the illegal hamburgers, hallucinated and believed rattlesnakes were attacking and reeducating him, police at the Waterloo barracks said.

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

Van Bloom forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the foyer, destroying the room and stabbing the lead pipe through a parlor door, police said.

When officers arrived Van Bloom was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a lead pipe, police said. Police found hamburgers in both of Van Bloom's pockets.

Van Bloom is charged with dereliction of duty, a felony, as well as desertion, false reporting, involuntary manslaughter, and fourteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Van Bloom was sent to Waterloo Prison in lieu of bail.