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Report: Shirtless man scares customers at Julington Creek Walmart

St. John's County Sheriff's Office Lee Bailey

St. Johns County deputies responded to a call at the Julington Creek Walmart on State Road 13 about a shirtless man with a six-inch knife, according to the incident report.

The man is accused of knocking things off the shelves, pushing over carts, and yelling.

"The guy came by and was rambling all kinds of loud stuff, knifed the flag, still rambling loud crazy stuff, and then he proceeded to go down to Walmart and knock all the shopping carts over," a local business owner said.

Lee Bailey, 37, of St. Johns, was arrested Tuesday for aggravated assault with a weapon, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and resisting an officer, according to police.

Once additional deputies arrived, Bailey left the Walmart and started walking down the street, waving the knife around and over his head, deputies say.

A man who witnessed the altercation told Action News Jax "I was driving my son to school. He goes to school across from where that happened. I saw there were four cruisers and a couple of unmarked cars that had gone up onto the sidewalk there and there were two officers holding down a gentleman. He didn't’t have a shirt, he didn't’t have shoes on."

The arrest report says once even more units arrived on scene, the deputies confronted Bailey at gunpoint, he dropped the knife and was arrested.

Deputies say they searched Bailey once he was arrested and found a glass container holding 1.4 grams of marijuana and a set of rolling papers.