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JENSEN BEACH, Fla. – An armed Florida<\/a> man accused of setting a portion of a preserve on fire was arrested after a brief standoff with deputies.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Morgan Grante Lentz, 22, of Melbourne, was seen walking along Jensen Beach Boulevard and NW Green River Parkway toward US-1 carrying a lit torch early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n Witnesses told investigators that they saw Lentz using a lit torch to ignite multiple spots and set portions of the Savannas Preserve on fire as he walked toward US-1.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Martin County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n Detectives said Lentz had already tried to pour gasoline on vehicles in the downtown Jensen area and later doused a motorcycle outside of a bar with an accelerant before taking off. \u00a0<\/p>\n When Lentz was found in the Savannas Preserve, deputies said he was armed with a burning tiki torch and what appeared to be a samurai sword.<\/p>\n Deputies said he surrendered after a brief standoff.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Martin County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n Crews with Martin County Fire Rescue put out the fire before significant damage was done.<\/p>\n No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n Lentz was charged with:<\/p>\n Intentional or reckless burning of landsCriminal mischief over $1,000Resisting without violence <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n It is unclear why Lentz allegedly lit a portion of the preserve on fire or why he had a sword.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information posted on social media by the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Martin County Sheriff’s Office JENSEN BEACH, Fla. – An armed Florida man accused of setting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-246220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246220","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=246220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jensen-beach-1-copy.jpg\")
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