A Florida man showing signs of being under the influence of bath salts bit the hood of a police cruiser, scraping off the paint and causing nearly $600 in damage while officers attempted to restrain him, local police allege.
According to police reports, 47-year-old Eric Scott of Milton, Fla., had been knocking on neighbors' doors and asking them to call 911, saying he needed medical assistance. When officers from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's office arrived, Scott allegedly began to walk away from them while cursing to himself, before throwing his flash light at a nearby mailbox and screaming "over and over" at the officers to shoot him.
He already had several self inflicted injuries to his hands and blood coming from his nose, police Sgt. Scott Haines told ABC News.
Police allege that as they waited for emergency responders to arrive, Scott, then detained in handcuffs, began to scrape his teeth across the hood of their patrol car, digging through the paint down to the metal. Scott was transported to a local hospital, where he continued to ask police and hospital workers to kill him. Scott was released from the hospital but could still face charges of criminal mischief and resisting an officer without violence.
Scott displayed numerous symptoms of using bath salts including "erratic behavior, confusion, loss of direction, and aggression towards law enforcement," according to police reports.
"We unfortunately have to deal with [suspects on bath salts] pretty frequently and all of his actions were consistent with someone who was on that," Haines told ABC News.
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A woman who answered the phone at Scott's residence -- and who could be overheard passing along questions to someone else in the room -- told ABC News Scott claimed he was not on bath salts.
"Just beer and vodka," she said.
DEA Announces Emergency Ban on 'Bath Salts'
Last June, an investigation that aired on ABC News "20/20" revealed the dangers of the then-legal bath salts, which have been linked to violent, sometimes deadly outbursts by users.
"They're selling time bombs," Louisiana Poison Control Center Director Dr. Mark Ryan told ABC News during the investigation. "We've had some people show up who are complaining of chest pains so severe that they think they're having a heart attack. They think they're dying... They have extreme paranoia. They're having hallucinations. They see things, they hear things, monsters, demons, aliens."
The synthetic drug, which has since been placed under an emergency ban by the DEA while a bill to permanently ban it awaits a vote by the Senate, has been linked to a number of bizarre episodes over the past year, including a New Orleans woman's arm being devoured by a flesh-eating disease in January and a West Virginia man dressed in women's underwear slaying a goat last May.
Man Kills Goat on Bath Salts
Don't hurt the goat, there are less lethal ways to reach your Dionysian inner man..
A West Virginia man found wearing women's underwear and standing over a goat's carcass told police he was high on bath salts.
Mark L. Thompson of Alum Creek was arrested at his home Monday. A criminal complaint in Kanawha County Magistrate Court charges the 19-year-old with cruelty to animals.
Sheriff's Deputy J.S. Shackelford says witnesses reported Thompson standing near a neighbor's pygmy goat in a bedroom. He was wearing a bra and female underwear. The goat had at least one stab wound.
Cpl. Sean Snuffer says Thompson indicated he had been high and "wasn't in his right mind."
Thompson was held on $50,000 bond Tuesday at the South Central Regional Jail. Jail records didn't indicate whether he had an attorney and no listed phone number was available.
And I thought NYC apartments were crowded...
WILKES-BARRE – An Edwardsville man who police say was high on bath salts when he called police to say there were “90 people living in the walls” will stand trial in March on related charges, a county judge said Thursday.
Robert Hospodar, 30, of Franklin Street, will face charges of disorderly conduct and endangering the welfare of children at a trial to be held the week of March 26, Judge Joseph Sklarosky, Jr., said.
Hospodar’s attorney, Paul Galante, said at this point he is requesting a trial, but he and his client have been discussing a possible guilty plea.
Hospodar and Amber Sutton, 27, of Luzerne Ave., West Pittston, were charged after police said they were hallucinating on bath salts and nearly cut their 5-year-old daughter with knives they were using to stab people they believed were living in the walls of their apartment.
The girl was not injured and full custody of the child has been given to Sutton’s mother, police said.
Sutton had been entered in the county’s Treatment Court program as a result of the charges, but was removed from the program in late December.
A county judge said in October Sutton failed to appear for court and a warrant for her arrest was issued. She was taken into custody in December.
Judge William Amesbury said Sutton will be lodged at the prison “until further order of the court.”
Police said they responded to the couple’s apartment in March 2011 “for a report of 90 people living in the walls.” Hospodar, Sutton and their daughter were in the apartment. Police said the adults were holding knives and other knives were on the floor.
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“They were pulling drywall off the walls and sticking their heads in the walls describing the people in which they claimed they saw. They were plunging knives into the holes in the walls attempting to stab the people,” according to the affidavit.
Woman drops baby off on Interstate while on Bath Salts...
Some children are evil but true demons are rare...
MARSHALL COUNTY, KY (WAVE) - A Western Kentucky mother accused of dropping her child on the interstate while high on "bath salts" pleaded guilty Monday morning.
Cynthia Palmer's trial was set to begin March 13, but instead she pleaded guilty to charges of assault, public intoxication, DUI, drug paraphernalia, and wanton endangerment.
With the deal, Palmer will serve at least 8 1/2 years of a 10 year sentence.
Last February, police say Palmer's 2-year-old child was found along Interstate 24 in Marshall County.
Palmer says she hallucinated after snorting synthetic cocaine, or bath salts, and thought the baby was a demon when she dropped him on the highway.
Palmer's children are in the custody of Palmer's father.
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