Michael Shawn Hunt , a 43-year-old man from Riverview was arrested and faces charges of attempted kidnapping with a weapon and aggravated stalking with a credible threat after police said they were alerted that he had allegedly plotted to kidnap pop singer Lana Del Rey. He was taken into custody just a couple hundred feet from where the singer was performing at the Amway Center in Orlando.
Hunt had previously served five prison terms, on charges including burglary of an occupied structure, grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft with a firearm, forgery and possession and sale of marijuana and had served about nine months for fleeing law enforcement as well.
Police said they received a tip from a caller who said Hunt had been sharing ‘cryptic and threatening’ posts on social media toward the singer, Lana Del Rey whose real name is Elizabeth Grant such as on a Facebook page where he wrote, “I want to see my queen on Friday and from that day forward our decisions will be as one.” He also posted a video on the site as well in which he opened about his plans to ‘get together’ with Rey and stated, “I’m going to probably finish out her tour with her, obviously, and dance and talk and figure out what we’re going to do.”
