A Florida man took a can of fuel from a Pollock-area home because God told him to steal it, according to a release.

The Grant Parish Sheriff's Office eventually arrested 48-year-old Matthew Scott Ferraro, of Naples, Florida, recently after he approached Cpl. Billy Gentry III at a gas station and asked him for gasoline, reads a release.

Ferraro allegedly was the subject of a report earlier that day by a homeowner near Pollock. The homeowner spotted a stranger walking in her yard with a can of fuel.

When the woman confronted Ferraro, asking if it was hers, he said it was.

"God told me to steal it," he allegedly told her.

When Sgt. Josh Daniels arrived at the home, Ferraro was gone. But he found that the hood on the woman's lawn mower had been removed and that fuel had been siphoned from it. The mower was damaged in the process, it reads.

Ferraro "sometime later" approached Gentry at the station, where he was arrested. Ferraro was charged with simple burglary, theft of fuel, simple criminal damage to property and criminal trespassing.