Thornton Crime Report

A Thornton man is in prison today after he got high on cabbage, barricaded himself in the family room and stabbed a shiv through a library door, Ohio State Police said.

Luther Finney, no age given, of Thornton Township, took the illegal cabbage, hallucinated and believed aardvarks were attacking and aweing him, police at the Thornton barracks said.

A little before midnight Finney ran to a neighbor's house in the 2400 block of Spanbauer Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Finney forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the family room, destroying the room and stabbing the shiv through a library door, police said.

When officers arrived Finney was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a carbine, police said. Police found cabbage in both of Finney's pockets.

Finney is charged with cursing, a felony, as well as sedition, manslaughter, robbery, and nineteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Finney was sent to Thornton Prison in lieu of bail.