LUTZ — A South Carolina guy was arrested early Sunday for making an attempt to kidnap a Lutz home-owner he experienced in no way met but stalked on social media for yrs, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office reported.

Investigators did not discover the victim, but the dwelling the place the suspect was arrested is owned by Daria Berenato, 26, who performs for WWE under the name Sonya Deville and stars in the E! cable channel truth Television series Total Divas.

Phillip A. Thomas II, 24, started setting up the abduction 8 months ago, in accordance to the Sheriff’s Office environment.

Thomas parked his vehicle around midnight at Idlewild Church off Dale Mabry Highway and Van Dyke Highway in Lutz and walked to a house on Pine Hammock Boulevard in the Promenade at Lake Park subdivision, the Sheriff’s Workplace reported in a information launch.

Thomas slice a hole in the patio monitor and remained on the patio 3 to 4 hours though viewing and listening by way of the windows. At 2:43 a.m., immediately after the homeowner experienced absent to bed, Thomas entered the property by a sliding glass doorway, activating the alarm.

The home-owner appeared out a window, spotted Thomas on the house and fled with a visitor in a vehicle. The home-owner referred to as 911.

Thomas was still in the household when deputies arrived. He was carrying a knife, plastic zip ties, duct tape, mace and other things and instructed deputies he was organizing to acquire the property owner hostage.

Thomas, listed on a jail booking sheet as an Applebee’s crew member, has been billed with aggravated stalking, armed theft of a dwelling, tried armed kidnapping, and felony mischief. He was getting held with no bail.

“Our deputies are unveiling the suspect’s disturbing obsession with this home owner who he had by no means achieved, but stalked on social media for several years,” Sheriff Chad Chronister mentioned in the information release. “It’s frightening to assume of all the strategies this incident could have performed out had the home alarm not gone off and alerted the house owner of an intruder.”

Everyone with facts about the situation was questioned to phone the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace at (813) 247-8200.

On Twitter, an account in Thomas’s title, @Phillip80400010, is made up of predominantly messages about Sonya Deville’s most current activities, such as retweets from her account Saturday about approaching WWE activities.

He defended Deville to on line critics and wrote her encouraging messages on Twitter. On July 30, he responded to just one of Deville’s tweets about her physical appearance at the GLAAD media awards, a nonprofit launched by LGBTQ people in the media. “I’m so happy of you Daria you’re a inspiration to me,” his tweet said.

But on Aug. 8, the writer appeared distressed when he achieved out to a psychiatrist who had tweeted, “#BreakingNews: U R Excellent!”

“But what if many others feel I’m not and I have no self self esteem or self well worth?” he responded.

“I’m asking for your advice for the reason that I need a second viewpoint on something that could figure out what comes about upcoming in my daily life.”