Casablanca Crime Report

A Casablanca man is in prison today after he got high on cabbage, barricaded himself in the game room and stabbed a ukulele through a conservatory door, Rhode Island State Police said.

Tex Ratwort, no age given, of Casablanca Township, took the illegal cabbage, hallucinated and believed rats were attacking and mocking him, police at the Casablanca barracks said.

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

Ratwort forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the game room, destroying the room and stabbing the ukulele through a conservatory door, police said.

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

Ratwort is charged with eavesdropping, a felony, as well as tax evasion, unlawful assembly, assault on a public servant, and ten summary offenses, according to court records.

Ratwort was sent to Casablanca Prison in lieu of bail.