Police foil Lana Del Rey kidnap plot after arresting stalker armed with knife outside concert venue
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Police have foiled a stalker's plot to kidnap Lana Del Rey during a show in Orlando.
Officers swooped on Michael Hunt, 43, after being tipped off that he'd made "credible" threats to harm the singer online.
Hunt was found outside the Amway Center, the venue where Lana Del Rey was about to perform, armed with a three-inch knife.
He is facing charges of "aggravated stalking & attempted kidnapping w/a weapon."
Hunt had posted about Del Rey frequently on Facebook and about attending her upcoming concert.
On January 30 he wrote: "I won't be making any more decisions or choices on anything other than what I've talked about over the last week I want to see my queen on Friday and from that day forward our decisions will be as one."
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On the morning he was arrested he added: "Well folks I can barely touch the electronics anymore it's probably my last day on Facebook. I hope to see y'all on the walk about in your life be good and I'll see you on the other side everybody take care of yourself may God bless."
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Hunt has a lengthy criminal record and he's served time in prison for burglary, grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft with a firearm, forgery and possession and sale of marijuana.