The Deerfield Beach man who drove his blue Ferrari into the Lake Worth Inlet last month told police that Jesus told him to do it, according to a police report released Monday.

“Jesus made me the smartest man on Earth,” the man told police, the report says, “and it’s so hard to have this much responsibility.”

James A. Mucciaccio Jr., 48, caused about $50,000 worth of damage to his 2000 Ferrari coupe on Dec. 26 when he intentionally drove it off a Palm Beach dock, police said.

At about 7 a.m. that morning, a bicyclist told a passing officer that a man was speeding his Ferrari in the 1200 block of North Ocean Boulevard. The officer found Mucciaccio parked on the Inlet Dock at 1650 N. Ocean Boulevard, the report says.

Police said Mucciaccio told them he was waiting for a friend to pick him up by the dock. When the officer told Mucciaccio he couldn’t park on the dock, Mucciaccio reversed toward the road but then suddenly switched into drive and drove into the inlet “at a high rate of speed,” the report says.

Police said Mucciaccio, who Palm Beach Fire-Rescue said was uninjured, “was able to exit” the car before it sank and was eventually helped onto a boat by a passing fisherman.

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After reaching shore, Mucciaccio walked back to the officer, police said, and said Jesus told him to drive off the dock “and into a 6-foot window.” Mucciaccio also told police, “Money is going to be irrelevant in two days; remember to smile,” according to the report.

The passing fisherman who helped Mucciaccio to shore told police that Mucciaccio said he drove into the inlet because the “officer on the dock was Egyptian and he did not believe in Jesus.”

Police wrote in the report that they spoke to Mucciaccio’s father. Reached Monday, Mucciaccio’s father declined to comment. Mucciaccio could not be reached.

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Police spent hours trying to remove the Ferrari from the Inlet, where it sunk 30 feet below the surface and rested on the inlet floor for most of the morning. Divers eventually attached inflatable airbags to the car and towed it underwater to Jim Barry Light Harbor Park in Riviera Beach before it was retrieved.

Aside from the damage to the Ferrari, Mucciaccio caused about $1,000 in damage to town property when the car “sideswiped” a metal ladder on its way into the inlet, police said.

The report does not say whether Mucciaccio was cited or charged with a crime. No more information was released.