Gus Young Jr stands accused of smashing up a grocery store in protest at the rising cost of living. Young apparently
entered Dixon's Food Mart in Fort Pierce, on the east Florida coast, and smashed a counter partition and DVD case.

When police turned up to arrest him, they say he smelled of alcohol, and was 'challenging people to fight.' When questioned he said he was angry about the fact that the price of a rock of crack cocaine had risen from ten dollars to twenty dollars.

Young claims he had actually been trying to punch a drug dealer in the store, but that the dealer ducked, causing him to hit the partition instead.

Metro