WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A West Palm Beach man who claimed the “holy spirit” told him to set a fire inside his apartment was arrested Sunday after trying to burn his home down, per deputies.
According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the 1300 block of Summit Pines Blvd. and learned that the ordeal began after a bizarre dispute over a piece of fruit. A neighbor told deputies that 57-year-old Jeffrey Knapp knocked on the door earlier that afternoon, demanding an apple.
When the neighbor didn’t have one to offer, Knapp allegedly flew into a rage, erratically cutting his own hair and letting it fall into a pile on the ground…