Boulder Crime Report

A Boulder man is in prison today after he got high on pizza, barricaded himself in the bathroom and stabbed a dagger through a basement door, Idaho State Police said.

Cornelius Sparks, no age given, of Boulder Township, took the illegal pizza, hallucinated and believed basset hounds were attacking and listening to him, police at the Boulder barracks said.

A little before midnight Sparks ran to a neighbor's house in the 2000 block of Grayheels Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Sparks forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the bathroom, destroying the room and stabbing the dagger through a basement door, police said.

When officers arrived Sparks was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a smoke bomb, police said. Police found pizza in both of Sparks's pockets.

Sparks is charged with disorderly conduct, a felony, as well as incitement, running a bingo game, public intoxication, and four summary offenses, according to court records.

Sparks was sent to Boulder Prison in lieu of bail.