The man charged in the anti-Semitic machete attack on a Hanukkah party was once accused of squatting in a Salt Lake City house where the owners suspected him of “drug activity” and “theft,” court records show.

Grafton Thomas was sued in January 2014 for allegedly ignoring an eviction notice for illegally occupying a house at 351 North 600 West in the Utah capital, records show.

The eviction notice from sibling landlords Shannon Feldman and Dennis Graham alleged that Thomas “committed or permitted a nuisance” in part because “no lease was ever executed.”

It also cited “supsisious [sic] drug activity” and “suspiscious [sic] of theft.”

In a rambling, hand-written response filed in Salt Lake City’s Third Judicial District Court, Grafton called his eviction “untimely” and asked for “substantial time to relocate myself and regulate all mental and physical disorders.”

“I am asking that you allow me to prepare myself because my conditions are spontaneous and untamed (I.b.s, schitzophrenia [sic], Depression/anxiety,” he wrote.

In the filing, Thomas said he came to Utah from New York to visit a “family member.”

On Monday, his pastor, the Rev. Wendy Paige of the Harriman United Methodist Church, said Thomas’ father was a Mormon from Utah.

Thomas also claimed that he had been living in the house since August 2003, and offered to pay $350 rent for January 2014, according to court papers.

He attended a January 15, 2014, court hearing that didn’t resolve the case, then failed to appear at subsequent hearings in March and April, records show.

During the April hearing, Feldman — who filed the suit — said that Thomas had moved out and that she wasn’t seeking any restitution, leading the case to be closed.

Feldman told The Post that she recognized Thomas from news coverage of Saturday’s stabbings, in which five Orthodox Jews were wounded inside a rabbi’s house in Monsey.

Feldman said that the Utah house was formerly her parents’ home, and was occupied by her late brother, Michael Graham, until he died in December 2013.

Following Michael’s death, his siblings learned that he’d been informally renting out several rooms — including to Thomas, who he met while working at a snack-food bakery, Feldman said.

The other tenants all quickly moved out, but Thomas refused to leave and called Dennis while the family was planning Michael’s funeral, Feldman said.

“He told him he wasn’t going to leave,” she said.

“He said, ‘This is my effin’ house and you ain’t going to effin’ get me out.'”

Feldman declined to elaborate on the alleged drug activity and theft mentioned in the eviction notice.

Dennis’ husband, Craig Erkelens, said he and Dennis also recognized photos of Thomas, who faces state charges of attempted murder and burglary, as well as federal hate-crimes charges.

“He knew just enough about the law to stay there as long as he could,” Erkelens said.

“He was a difficult and aggressive a–hole and a real prick. He wasn’t stupid, he really knew how to manipulate the system.”

Thomas’ lawyers didn’t return requests for comment.