Portland Crime Report

A Portland man is in prison today after he got high on biscuits and gravy, barricaded himself in the billiard room and stabbed a paddle through a pool room door, Minnesota State Police said.

Gino DeMille, no age given, of Portland Township, took the illegal biscuits and gravy, hallucinated and believed goats were attacking and sanitizing him, police at the Portland barracks said.

A little before midnight DeMille ran to a neighbor's house in the 1200 block of Kennedy Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

DeMille forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the billiard room, destroying the room and stabbing the paddle through a pool room door, police said.

When officers arrived DeMille was uncooperative and had to be subdued with an insect repellant, police said. Police found biscuits and gravy in both of DeMille's pockets.

DeMille is charged with winking, a felony, as well as minor in possession, vagrancy, assault with a deadly weapon, and six summary offenses, according to court records.

DeMille was sent to Portland Prison in lieu of bail.