Timbuktu Crime Report

A Timbuktu man is in prison today after he got high on smoked salmon, barricaded himself in the conservatory and stabbed a soldering iron through a family room door, Oklahoma State Police said.

Nils Emerson, no age given, of Timbuktu Township, took the illegal smoked salmon, hallucinated and believed Dobermans were attacking and stumping him, police at the Timbuktu barracks said.

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

Emerson forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the conservatory, destroying the room and stabbing the soldering iron through a family room door, police said.

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

Emerson is charged with telemarketing fraud, a felony, as well as second degree murder, identity theft, stalking, and two summary offenses, according to court records.

Emerson was sent to Timbuktu Prison in lieu of bail.