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CALDWELL - Noble County Sheriff Landon T. Smith apprehended a Florida man Tuesday who was found living in a cave near Wolf Run State Park.

Smith said his office received a call last Sunday of a person in a car with Florida license plates who was behaving strangely. Deputies were unable to locate the vehicle.

Tuesday, a second call was received regarding a vehicle that matched the same description parked on a township road in the area of the park. When deputies arrived on the scene, they found the vehicle packed full of supplies, but could not locate the driver.

Smith had the vehicle transported to the Noble County Jail and began a search.

"We got to thinking that possibly something had happened to the driver. We went out to search the area and tracked a person through a field and wooded areas" he said. "We then found rope that led down embankments and ravines. When we got to the bottom of a second ravine we found him in a cave. He was trying to boil eggs. It was real smoky. In fact, some of the deputies didn't like it in his cave."

Smith said the man, Lloyd Albright, 47, of Satellite Beach, Fla., was cooperative, but because of his suspicious behavior, Smith placed him under arrest in order to remove him from the property.

According to Smith, Albright said he was hiding in the cave to avoid meteor showers which he said will hit the Atlantic Ocean and cause a 200-foot tidal wave, wreaking havoc on the East Coast and Florida.

Upon investigating Albright further, Smith found the man to be a computer programer for NASA. In his vehicle, a late model Saturn, he found 16 weapons with ammunition, camping gear, dried food, blankets, clothing and 200 pounds of wheat.

"I spoke with his wife and she said he was concerned about the meteor shower. She said he wanted the rest of the family to join him but they declined his offer."

Smith said Albright said he learned about the cave by searching the Internet...