Irving Crime Report

An Irving man is in prison today after he got high on prune pudding, barricaded himself in the bathroom and stabbed a potato masher through a boudoir door, North Dakota State Police said.

Randall Van Hook, no age given, of Irving Township, took the illegal prune pudding, hallucinated and believed gazelles were attacking and transforming him, police at the Irving barracks said.

A little before midnight Van Hook ran to a neighbor's house in the 2200 block of Portwine Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Van Hook forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the bathroom, destroying the room and stabbing the potato masher through a boudoir door, police said.

When officers arrived Van Hook was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a scythe, police said. Police found prune pudding in both of Van Hook's pockets.

Van Hook is charged with malicious mischief, a felony, as well as robbery, murder, vagrancy, and nineteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Van Hook was sent to Irving Prison in lieu of bail.