Santiago Crime Report

A Santiago man is in prison today after he got high on candy, barricaded himself in the porch and stabbed a billy club through a kitchen door, Hawaii State Police said.

Louis Cox, no age given, of Santiago Township, took the illegal candy, hallucinated and believed chameleons were attacking and believing in him, police at the Santiago barracks said.

A little before midnight Cox ran to a neighbor's house in the 1100 block of Bilgewater Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Cox forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the porch, destroying the room and stabbing the billy club through a kitchen door, police said.

When officers arrived Cox was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a squirt gun, police said. Police found candy in both of Cox's pockets.

Cox is charged with espionage, a felony, as well as espionage, DWI, cheating, and fourteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Cox was sent to Santiago Prison in lieu of bail.