A man apparently high on LSD managed to escape from a Butler police holding cell, according to reports. But the suspect didn’t get far out of the lockup.

City police caught the suspect, Jarett D. McNeill, 22, of Butler Township, just after 11 p.m. Friday near the exit door at the city police station on North Washington Street

He is being held in the Butler County Prison on felony and other charges stemming from his bad trip to the station.

Police Sgt. Brian Grooms said he found McNeill shortly after 9 p.m. after being called to a home in the 300 block of West Penn Street for an unknown man sitting on the front porch talking to himself.

He was “rambling on about how he loves Ford and mustard,” court documents said, when police got there.

When asked his name, according to a police affidavit, he said, “1994.”

While Grooms spoke to McNeill, he repeatedly sat up and laid back, and swung his arms back and forth. He was arrested for public intoxication and placed in a police car.

But once in the cruiser, police said, the defendant bounced himself around in the vehicle and at one point kneed the side door, damaging it.

A search of the suspect turned up a square tab of suspected LSD. He was placed in a holding cell at the station.

Police said McNeill began “hitting and slamming his body” into the cell door, which caused the lock to break at 11:05 p.m.

He made it out of the cell but was nabbed before making it out the station door.

District Judge Sue Haggerty later arraigned McNeill on a felony charge of escape and other charges of criminal mischief, possession of a controlled substance and public drunkenness.

He was placed in the county prison on $10,000 bail following arraignment.