Man acting like dog arrested on drug charges

A Texas man who was arrested on drug charges, after construction workers witnessed him on his hands and knees, eating mud and growling like a dog, is still being monitored at the DeSoto Detention Center.

Authorities suspect phencyclidine, or PCP, contributed to Terence Loyd's delusions. A small bottle of the hallucinogenic drug, a half-pound of marijuana and quarter-ounce of crack cocaine were seized during Lloyd's arrest Thursday afternoon, DeSoto sheriff's Lt. Horace Womack said.

"He was covered in mud when he was brought in." In fact, he had ingested so much mud that he was throwing up mud," Womack said. Loyd, 32, of Lufkin, Texas, was in a cell where jailers could keep an eye on him, Womack said. "We've not been able to communicate with him much."



A female who had accompanied Loyd from Texas to a Mansfield housing complex, where Loyd was visiting relatives, told authorities that Lloyd had been acting strange most of the day. She said he had been wandering around the complex and eating dog food.

Tri-Parish Drug Task Force agents and Mansfield police responded to the area when contractors, who were at a construction site on the complex, reported seeing Loyd hide something near where they were working. They started watching him and when they approached him he was "on all fours eating mud, rolling around and growled at them like a dog," Womack said.

Loyd ran into an apartment when officers arrived. But they coaxed him out and he was arrested without incident.