TAMPA — An unemployed wanderer was arrested at the Westshore Mall Feb. 3 after mall security told police the man tried to stab a guard with an umbrella.

Mall security officers began looking for Raymond Tylicki, 28, of Cleveland, Ohio, around 5:30 p.m., after employees at Burdines told them a “suspicious-looking man” had been in the store and “given himself a bath in one of their displays.”

Security guard Abel Rivas, 36, found Tylicki at a fountain in the center of the mall, where, the guard said, he was scooping out coins. When the guard approached Tylicki, police said, the man dropped the coins, cursed at the guard and ran for the exit. When Rivas cornered Tylicki near Saks Fifth Avenue, the guard told police, the suspect turned and attempted to stab him several times with a black umbrella.

Rivas and three other security guards restrained Tylicki and turned him over to the Tampa police.

Tylicki is being held in the Hillsborough County jail in lieu of $1,000 bail. He has been charged with aggravated assault.