Police: Butter-hungry man pulls knife at church buffet

OCALA – Ocala police officers arrested a man Sunday morning who they say pulled a knife on members of a church congregation who would not give him butter in the morning buffet.

Frankie Lewis, 48, wanted to get some butter in the buffet line at Four Square Church at 118 N.W. Tuscawilla Ave., police spokeswoman Sgt. Angy Scroble said. When he could not get any, he pulled a knife on members of the congregation and said he would cut them.

As he put the knife back in his pocket, a church member hit him with a wooden board, Scroble said. Lewis then fled on a bicycle where officers in the area quickly caught him.

Lewis was taken to the Marion County Jail and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

- Joe VanHoose