Paris Crime Report

A Paris man is in prison today after he got high on banana split, barricaded himself in the study and stabbed a Colt 45 through a foyer door, Tennessee State Police said.

Octavius Montgomery, no age given, of Paris Township, took the illegal banana split, hallucinated and believed geckos were attacking and mesmerizing him, police at the Paris barracks said.

A little before midnight Montgomery ran to a neighbor's house in the 1900 block of Young Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Montgomery forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the study, destroying the room and stabbing the Colt 45 through a foyer door, police said.

When officers arrived Montgomery was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a soldering iron, police said. Police found banana split in both of Montgomery's pockets.

Montgomery is charged with shoplifting, a felony, as well as hate crimes, sedition, white collar crime, and fifteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Montgomery was sent to Paris Prison in lieu of bail.