Grand Rapids Crime Report

A Grand Rapids man is in prison today after he got high on roast beef, barricaded himself in the dining room and stabbed a billy club through a master bedroom door, Iowa State Police said.

Nils Plunkett, no age given, of Grand Rapids Township, took the illegal roast beef, hallucinated and believed porcupines were attacking and transforming him, police at the Grand Rapids barracks said.

A little before midnight Plunkett ran to a neighbor's house in the 2500 block of Gong Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Plunkett forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the dining room, destroying the room and stabbing the billy club through a master bedroom door, police said.

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

Plunkett is charged with larceny, a felony, as well as arson, computer crime, harboring a fugitive, and twenty summary offenses, according to court records.

Plunkett was sent to Grand Rapids Prison in lieu of bail.