A shirtless Cicero, Ill., man holding a Samurai sword and walking along the inner shoulder of I-65 on Sunday was arrested on charges of attempted car jacking, resisting law enforcement, and possession of marijuana, the Indiana State Police said.

According to police, at 2:30 p.m. a trooper was dispatched to the southbound lanes of I-65, just south of 61st Ave., in response to a report of a man running on I-65 and holding a sword. On his arrival, police said, the trooper observed a white older model Toyota abandoned in the middle lane and then saw a male subject, “dressed in plaid knee-length shorts, slip-on shoes, no shirt” and “marching with a Samurai sword on the inner shoulder south of the Toyota’s location.”

“The man was marching like a drum major, holding the sword, moving it up and down in rhythm with his marching cadence,” police said.

When the trooper approached the man—later identified as Bryon Womack, 43—“he swung the sword in a defensive manner,” police said. “He dropped the sword when (the trooper) ordered him to do so.”

Also responding to the scene was a Merrillville Police unit, police said, and a motorist behind the MPD squad car “had to swerve and stop on the inner berm to avoid hitting” the squad when it stopped at the scene. At that point, police said, Womack tried to gain entry to the motorist’s vehicle “until he was ordered to the ground by gunpoint” and handcuffed.

The suspect “gave different names and addresses,” police said. “He was taken to Lake County Jail where he pronounced that he was ‘Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs’” but refused to identify himself, police said.

He was positively identified as Womack on Monday, police said.

The Samurai sword in question was around 35 inches in length.

Posted 9/6/2011