{"id":170270,"date":"2026-02-26T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170270\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:08:07","slug":"broward-man-79-accused-of-purposely-setting-mobile-home-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170270\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward man, 79, accused of purposely setting mobile home on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 26, 2026 at 11:50 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5CXBQXIOM5HN5CLS3IOJH55LBU.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Photo Robert Wezyk (BSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A 79-year-old man is facing an arson charge in connection with a 2024 fire at his mobile home in Hallandale Beach, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said Robert Wezyk, then 78, set the fire after being evicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the blaze happened on May 22, 2024 at Wezyk\u2019s home in the 300 block of Northeast Fifth Street, within the Seville Mobile Home Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An arrest report from the Hallandale Beach Police Department states that prior to the fire, he told someone that he was being evicted and when asked what he was going to do about the trailer, told the person that he was \u201cprobably going to burn it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Wezyk used gasoline to ignite the blaze and was seen on surveillance footage from a nearby mobile home \u201ccarrying a handheld sprayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that later that day, Wezyk spoke to another person about the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe did not appear concerned about the fire and advised (redacted) that it must have been the steak he left on the stove,\u201d HBPD Detective Christopher Grieco wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police arrested Wezyk, who now lives in Hollywood, on a first-degree arson charge on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He appeared in court on Thursday, where a Broward judge ordered he be held without bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of late Thursday morning, Wezyk was being held in the Broward Main Jail.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 26, 2026 at 11:50 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPhoto Robert Wezyk (BSO) HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A 79-year-old man is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-170270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}