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Miami.- A 24-year-old man obsessed for years with a wrestling star traveled from South Carolina to Florida with the intention of kidnapping her, but was arrested and charged thanks to an alarm, local media reported.
Phillip A. Thomas told police that he wanted Sonya Deville, whom he had harassed for years on social media, to be his hostage and had started planning for it for more than eight months..
However, the professional wrestler, whose real name is Daria Berenato and who according to the ESPN television channel is the first professional wrestling who is openly gay, had a security alarm at her home in Lutz, west-central Florida , which was activated as soon as Thomas crossed the threshold.
Sonya Deville, 26, and another person in the home went outside as soon as the alarm went off, drove away from the scene in a car, and called 911. When the police arrived at the house, the intruder was still there, who confessed to the agents her plan to kidnap the fighter.
The young man had left his car in the parking lot of a nearby church and walked to the house next to Sonya Deville’s, where he waited for night to fall to pass through the hedge through a hole he had opened and opened a door rear, according to the media account. The alarm went off instantly.
Thank you all for your love and concern. It has been a terrifying experience, but luckily everyone is safe, ”said the professional wrestler in a Twitter message.
