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Lance Allen Gillan

(Shippensburg police)

A Shippensburg man is in prison after borough police said he hit his 67-year-old mother after she dumped his Jagermeister down the drain.

When the woman tried to call for help, Lance Allen Gillan, no age given, "bit his mother's hand to get the phone and flush it down the toilet," according to a news release from the borough police.

Police were called to the 200 block of Senior Drive just after 6:30 p.m. Thursday for a report of a domestic dispute between a mother and son.

Officers discovered that Gillan had already finished one bottle of Jagermeister and had started a second when his mother grabbed the bottle and poured it in the sink, police said.

Police said Gillan responded by hitting his mother on the side of the head.

Gillan is in the Cumberland County Prison on $10,000 bail on charges of simple assault and harassment.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 18.