Hamburg Crime Report

A Hamburg man is in prison today after he got high on tuna casserole, barricaded himself in the kitchen and stabbed a baseball bat through a cage door, New Hampshire State Police said.

Larry Swoopes, no age given, of Hamburg Township, took the illegal tuna casserole, hallucinated and believed dinosaurs were attacking and neglecting him, police at the Hamburg barracks said.

A little before midnight Swoopes ran to a neighbor's house in the 300 block of Curie Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Swoopes forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the kitchen, destroying the room and stabbing the baseball bat through a cage door, police said.

When officers arrived Swoopes was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a Colt 45, police said. Police found tuna casserole in both of Swoopes's pockets.

Swoopes is charged with aggravated assault, a felony, as well as cheating, carjacking, embezzlement, and fourteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Swoopes was sent to Hamburg Prison in lieu of bail.