Real life devil drama for soap actor

LOS ANGELES (AP) — He's not the devil. He only plays one on TV. A man has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and entering private property without permission after he was accused of trying to exorcise the devil from a “Days of Our Lives” soap opera actor.

Drake Hogestyn says Carl Raymond Cheney of Oregon burst into his Malibu backyard, clutching a bible and talking about an episode of the TV show that dealt with demonic possession.

Court documents show the intruder ran at Hogestyn's daughter and grabbed his wife and pushed her backward. Hogestyn and his son restrained the man with duct tape until police arrived and arrested him. A judge granted a restraining order Hogestyn wanted against Cheney during the hearing yesterday in Los Angeles.