Rome Crime Report

A Rome man is in prison today after he got high on pancakes, barricaded himself in the dining room and stabbed a bow and arrows through a tool shed door, Florida State Police said.

Cornelius Simons, no age given, of Rome Township, took the illegal pancakes, hallucinated and believed computers were attacking and stinging him, police at the Rome barracks said.

A little before midnight Simons ran to a neighbor's house in the 1900 block of Schmuckley Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Simons forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the dining room, destroying the room and stabbing the bow and arrows through a tool shed door, police said.

When officers arrived Simons was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a branding iron, police said. Police found pancakes in both of Simons's pockets.

Simons is charged with extortion, a felony, as well as aiding and abetting, putting the thumb to the nose, minor in possession, and eight summary offenses, according to court records.

Simons was sent to Rome Prison in lieu of bail.