Lancaster Crime Report

A Lancaster man is in prison today after he got high on borscht, barricaded himself in the linen closet and stabbed a lariat through a foyer door, New Mexico State Police said.

Running Bear Ramos, no age given, of Lancaster Township, took the illegal borscht, hallucinated and believed tropical fish were attacking and aggravating him, police at the Lancaster barracks said.

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

Ramos forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the linen closet, destroying the room and stabbing the lariat through a foyer door, police said.

When officers arrived Ramos was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a pair of bare hands, police said. Police found borscht in both of Ramos's pockets.

Ramos is charged with extortion, a felony, as well as embezzlement, robbery, grave robbery, and seventeen summary offenses, according to court records.

Ramos was sent to Lancaster Prison in lieu of bail.