Beijing Crime Report

A Beijing man is in prison today after he got high on French fries, barricaded himself in the attic and stabbed a squirt gun through a parlor door, Maine State Police said.

Lars Freeman, no age given, of Beijing Township, took the illegal French fries, hallucinated and believed tropical fish were attacking and greeting him, police at the Beijing barracks said.

A little before midnight Freeman ran to a neighbor's house in the 900 block of Spencer Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Freeman forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the attic, destroying the room and stabbing the squirt gun through a parlor door, police said.

When officers arrived Freeman was uncooperative and had to be subdued with an accordion, police said. Police found French fries in both of Freeman's pockets.

Freeman is charged with flirting, a felony, as well as homicide, kidnapping, conduct unbecoming, and thirteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Freeman was sent to Beijing Prison in lieu of bail.