Boca Man Threatened To Slit Ex’s Throat, Burn Her House: PBSO

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrested 29-year-old Lucas Kaya Nalu Villeza after the alleged victim said Villeza showed up at her Scenic Turn home uninvited, got angry after learning she’d been spending time with a male neighbor, and then unleashed a barrage of calls and messages after she locked him out and called police.

According to the probable cause affidavit reviewed by BocaNewsNow.com, the woman received roughly 26 phone calls from Villeza over the course of several hours, plus a huge number of messages from his Instagram account threatening to “f***ing light your whole house on fire” and telling her to “answer the f***ing phone or you’re getting stabbed in your f***ing sleep tonight.”

In another message, Villeza allegedly wrote that she had “24 hours to respond” or he would burn down her entire neighborhood. The victim told investigators she feared for her safety and that of her two young children living with her, citing Villeza’s escalating behavior and his past struggles with methamphetamine use, which she said she wasn’t sure had resumed…

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