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A creepy fan was arrested for stalking Miley Cyrus and then let go because of jail overcrowding - despite telling Georgia cops the "Hannah Montana" star sends him "secret messages" through her TV show.

With Mark McLeod's whereabouts unknown, Disney bigwigs fear for the safety of their 16-year-old franchise darling.

Studio execs are so concerned that McLeod could harm the starlet they alerted Los Angeles cops of his arrest and release in Georgia, TMZ.com reported.

In March, McLeod professed to the Daily News that he is Cyrus "No. 1 fan" while waiting to see her at a Midtown book signing.

He said he first saw her in concert in Orlando last year and since then "I've kinda been watching everything she does."

McLeod of Appling, Ga., showed a far more sinister side June 22 when he was arrested in Tybee Island, Ga., near where Cyrus was filming her upcoming movie, "The Last Song."

Cursing at cops, McLeod allegedly tried to head-butt one officer as he was being handcuffed.

"F--- you and your rules!" he screamed as he tussled with police. "I will \[expletive\] be with Miley!"

He told cops he had "thousands of pictures and letters to Miley on his computer," and had mailed her diamond rings.

"McLeod stated that Cyrus' responses came in the form of 'secret messages' on her television show directed only to him," the police report says.

He was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and obstruction and released a day later due to jail overcrowding. "If we had heard something about this guy supposedly being a stalker ... he wouldn't have been released," Chatham County, Ga., Sheriff Al St. Lawrence told WSAV-TV in Georgia.

Tybee Island cops were apparently unaware that a court order had been issued in Los Angeles barring him from coming near Cyrus.

The suspect was ordered to appear in Georgia on Sept. 1. Cyrus' spokeswoman did not return calls for comment.

During his arrest, McLeod boasted to Tybee Island cop Warren Millikan that he and the actress "great friends."

"Nobody will ever be able to keep us apart," McLeod told cops, according to the police report.

Repeating what he told The News, he claimed he became Cyrus' most devoted fan when he saw her in concert for the first time.

Our eyes met at her concert and we both knew," McLeod told Millikan, adding that Cyrus had accepted his marriage proposal and that her father, Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, had given him his blessing.

"I walked straight thru security and up to her bus," Millikan claimed. "Billy Ray was standing there. He shook my hand and said you're a good man we've been praying for."

McLeod even dissed Cyrus' ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, saying, "Miley is only with the Jonas brother for the press."

Police believe McLeod is obviously delusional.

NY Daily News