Now it's Spice??
'He was found with blood and fur all over him': US man on synthetic marijuana chases neighbour while growling before 'strangling and EATING dog' in new zombie-like attack
By Thomas Durante
PUBLISHED: 08:07 EST, 26 June 2012 | UPDATED: 13:46 EST, 26 June 2012
A drug-fuelled rampage led a man to attack several people and chase around a neighbour while growling like an animal - before he brutally killed and ate a dog.
Cops arrived at a home in Waco, Texas, on June 14 after a man called 911 to report a man living in his house that was 'going crazy.'
Police said that Michael Terron Daniel told his housemates that he was 'on a bad trip' after taking the synthetic drug K-2 and began attacking them.
'Attacker': Michael Daniel, pictured on his MySpace page, left, and in his booking photo, right, has been charged with animal cruelty in the gruesome killing of a dog in Waco, Texas
Outside the home, Daniel allegedly assaulted another man who lived at the home.
Sgt W. Patrick Swanton of the Waco Police Department told MailOnline that when a neighbour tried to intervene, Daniel got down on his hands and knees and 'began barking and growling like a dog.'
He then chased the neighbour, who ran into his house.
As horrified witnesses watched, Daniel allegedly turned his drug-fuelled rage to a medium-sized Spaniel mix, who belonged to one of his housemates, beating and choking the animal.
Tragic: Police said the dog killed in the attack was a Spaniel mix, like the one seen here
Scene of the crime: Daniel allegedly attacked others in his home before chasing a neighbour while growling like an animal
Sgt Swanton said that Daniel then 'took a bite out of the dog, ripping pieces of flesh away and eating them.'
Police showed up to find Daniel sitting on the front porch with the dog's carcass on his lap.
Drug: K-2, also known as 'spice,' is a mixture of herbs and spices that is usually sprayed with a compound similar to THC
Sgt Swanton said: 'There was blood and fur around his mouth, blood and fur on his clothing.'
He added that Daniel was in some kind of a catatonic state and did not respond to the officers at first, but when he snapped out of it, he asked the officers to Tase him or fight him to snap him out of the 'bad trip.'
Sgt Swanton said the officers declined, and an ambulance took him to a nearby hospital, where he was treated and later released.
Daniel was arrested on Monday at the Waco store where he worked and was charged with cruelty to a non-livestock animal, a felony.
His housemates declined to press assault charges against him.
He is being held at the McLennan County Jail on $5,000 bond.
Sgt Swanton said that Daniel has been in trouble with the Waco Police Department before, but would not elaborate on any past cases against him.
K-2, also known as 'spice,' is a mixture of herbs and spices that is usually sprayed with a compound similar to THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana, according to the DEA.
Side effects include paranoia, panic attacks, giddiness and in rare occurrences – violence.
Recent zombie-like attacks, like the gruesome face-chewing attack in Miami, are believed to have been caused by ingesting bath salts, a potent hallucinogen.