WILLIAMSPORT – Additional charges, including ethnic intimidation, have been filed against a man found walking naked near a suburban Williamsport church whose sanctuary had been damaged extensively.

The new charges against Steven Leonard Smith-Williams, 32, were filed Monday before District Judge Gary Whiteman held him for court on counts stemming from conduct outside Emmanuel Baptist Church on Dec. 21.

The ethnic intimidation count alleges Smith-Williams used knives to carve into walls of the church sanctuary the following: “War Is Coming,” “Be Muslim” and “Islam Is the Way to God.”

State police said they linked Smith-Williams to the break-in through a paycheck stub found in a pile of clothes at the rear of the sanctuary.

The clothes included sneakers, jeans, T-shirt, socks, underwear and a winter jacket, they said.

Smith-Williams was arrested about 7 a.m. that day walking naked on Four Mile Drive near the church holding part of an amplifier.

The more than $10,000 damage done to the church included the destruction of an amplifier, the Rev. David Bixler, the senior pastor of the church, said.

In addition, there was damage to the organ and air conditioning units, solid oak pews that were bolted to the floor were overturned, holes made in walls, windows broken and an office ransacked, he said.

The damage caused the congregation to move services, including those on Christmas Eve, to the gymnasium in the education building.

The other new charges against Smith-Williams are illegal entry, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, possession of an instrument of crime, desecration of venerated objects, institutional vandalism, theft and receiving stolen property.

Whiteman increased bail to $175,000, which Smith-Williams has been unable to post.

Charges he bound over to court are aggravated assault, indecent exposure, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, open lewdness and a pedestrian under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

When troopers approached the naked man he became combative, claimed he was “black baby Jesus” and repeatedly asked that they kill him, an arrest affidavit states.

One trooper was kicked in the chest during the approximate 10 minutes it took to get him in restraints, the charges state.

At the time of the incident, Smith-Williams, a New Jersey native, had been free on $5,000 unsecured bail awaiting trial on charges of possession of controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

He lives near the church and, according to Bixler, had attended as a youngster.

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