Man claiming to be Satan stabs one, threatens four, police say...

A 30-year-old Hallandale Beach man who claimed to be Satan was arrested Sunday and accused of stabbing one man and threatening four other people, including a pregnant woman, Hollywood Police said.

Michael Anthony Thomas is charged with 13 counts that include aggravated battery with a weapon causing bodily harm, false imprisonment, resisting arrest and threatening law enforcement officers, Broward Jail records show.

It started about 8:34 a.m. Sunday when Alex Johnson, who was dozing on the couch, awoke to a knock at the door of a home in the 2100 block of Taylor Street in Hollywood. Johnson said he let Thomas in.

Thomas grabbed an eight-inch butcher knife from inside the house and "demanded his stuff," Johnson said in the police report.

Thomas declared he was Satan and said he did not care about killing anyone as he walked through the house stabbing the walls and repeatedly saying no one could leave. Then he stood in a doorway, blocking the exit, and stabbed an outside wall, the report stated


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