Man Charged With Breaking Into Police Department

GAINESVILLE, GA -- Yes, that headline is correct. 

A Gainesville, Ga., man is charged with trying to break into ... not out of ... his local police department.

At about 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, Gainesville (Ga.) Police officers encountered what they described as a "deranged" man inside the police department. They heard glass shattering and loud noises coming from an area of the department not open to the public.

According to a Facebook post, the man, later identified as 32-year-old Samuel Espejel-Sanchez, was bleeding from injuries he sustained while breaking in.

Police say Espejel-Sanchez had climbed over a fence into a secure area, then broke two doors and two windows before getting inside the building.

"The subject was not in the right state of mind," the department said in the post. "He appeared to be hallucinating. He advised that people were after him."

Police immediately took Espejel-Sanchez into custody. He's been charged with interference with government property, false report of a crime, 2nd degree burglary and public intoxication. He did hundreds of dollars worth of damage to the department building, according to the post.

Police say they believe Espejel-Sanchez was under the influence, possibly of what they called "synthetic substances."

They noted a previous instance in which it took six Gainesville officers to subdue a man believed to be on synthetic drugs.

"Please stay away from these synthetic drugs," the post concludes. "They make you do crazy things ... like break into a police department."