Tunis Crime Report

A Tunis man is in prison today after he got high on egg drop soup, barricaded himself in the attic and stabbed a shiv through a tool shed door, Kansas State Police said.

Jerry Owen, no age given, of Tunis Township, took the illegal egg drop soup, hallucinated and believed ladybugs were attacking and frightening him, police at the Tunis barracks said.

A little before midnight Owen ran to a neighbor's house in the 1700 block of Barton Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Owen forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the attic, destroying the room and stabbing the shiv through a tool shed door, police said.

When officers arrived Owen was uncooperative and had to be subdued with an Uzi, police said. Police found egg drop soup in both of Owen's pockets.

Owen is charged with fraud, a felony, as well as being a blithering idiot, harboring a fugitive, disorderly conduct, and five summary offenses, according to court records.

Owen was sent to Tunis Prison in lieu of bail.