A 32-year-old Palm Coast man is facing attempted battery charges after deputies with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said he tried to harm his pregnant, estranged wife by rigging her front door with a device that could have electrocuted her.

Michael Scott Wilson was arrested in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Thursday afternoon after deputies obtained a warrant for his arrest on two counts of attempted aggravated battery on a pregnant person and one count of grand theft of a firearm, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Flagler County deputies originally responded to a home in the 100 block of White Hall Drive in Palm Coast on Tuesday to conduct a "security check" after the homeowner contacted authorities about suspicious statements made by his son-in-law about keeping a child from touching the front door of the home, the release said.

At the home deputies found that the front door seemed to be barricaded and there were burn marks near the door handle. A deputy kicked the door open and observed a "large spark" in doing so, according to the release.

"Based on observations made by the deputies on scene, it was apparent that the suspect rigged electrical devices to the top door lock and lower door handle in an attempt to electrocute and cause serious bodily injury or even death to whomever attempted to unlock and open the front door of the residence," the release said.

The Sheriff’s Office said that a subsequent investigation found that Wilson rigged the door in order to harm to his wife and that he also stole a firearm from the house that belongs to his father-in-law.

As of Friday morning, Wilson was in custody in Tennessee, being held on $150,000 bond and awaiting extradition to Flagler County.

A charging affidavit in the case says that Wilson’s wife, whose name is redacted from the document, told deputies that Wilson had suffered a fall following some sort of incident (the description of which is also redacted) a few months prior.

While medical information is redacted from the affidavit, it does say that the wife told investigators that "up until that point, Michael Wilson, seemed to be a normal person."

The Sheriff’s Office said the investigation is ongoing and additional charges are pending.