HOBE SOUND — It’s apparently not against the law to have ink in your eye and express interest in buying the post office, but trespassing and giving bogus names are a different story.

That’s apparently what played out Aug. 12 at the post office in Hobe Sound after Martin County sheriff’s deputies went there for a call about a suspicious person, according to an arrest affidavit.

Dispatchers said they’d gotten calls about a man sitting on the floor of the post office lobby.

Investigators found a man on the floor. His eyes were closed, and he said he was tired and had gotten pen ink in his eye.

“The male told me he was waiting to speak to the post office manager … because he needed to sign a contract to buy the post office because it was for sale,” the affidavit states.

The man said he had no identification on him.

He gave a name and a birth date from 1972. Asked his age, the man said he wasn’t good with numbers and was 35.

“Knowing that someone born in 1972 would not be 35 years of age I inquired further about that information being his true name and/or date of birth,” the affidavit states.

The man said the deputy was being aggressive, but the deputy said the post office was a government building and wasn’t for sale and his identity needed to be verified.

Meanwhile, a postal supervisor said the man rang the bell, knocked on the door and asked to use the bathroom.

The postal supervisor said he eventually asked the man to leave, but he refused and sat down.

The man repeatedly declined to leave after deputies told him to and was arrested on a charge of trespassing in a structure after a warning.

The man also is accused of providing several bogus names and dates of birth to investigators, who used fingerprints to identify him as Reiza Kristoph Ishmael, 22, of Orlando. He also was arrested on a charge of providing a false name to a law enforcement officer.

Ishmael was taken to the Martin County jail.