A UCF student from Melbourne is behind bars in Martin County, accused of using a tiki torch and gasoline to start a brush fire at the Savannas Preserve State Park. <\/p>\n
A witness caught video of 22-year-old Morgan Lenz, dressed as a pirate, with a samurai sword on his hip, as he sets fire to the brush. That witness posted the video to Facebook.<\/p>\n
Other witnesses reported Lenz, earlier Wednesday night, trying to set someone’s motorcycle ablaze outside a bar.<\/p>\n
Sheriff John Budensiek says there are concerns about mental illness.<\/p>\n
“Most of his conversations or our interactions with him were scattered at best.”<\/p>\n
He tells CBS 12 News that the suspect’s family thinks Lenz may be schizophrenic, though he’s had no official diagnosis.<\/p>\n
Lenz is charged with malicious land burning, criminal mischief and resisting arrest without violence.<\/p>\n
Police at his college say they had a previous encounter with him for “acting strange.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UCF student from Melbourne is behind bars in Martin County, accused of using a tiki torch and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85000,23311,23307,84998,84996,115,171,173,172,84997,807,84999,729,221],"class_list":["post-247192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-clear-channel-miami","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-glenn-beck","tag-hannity","tag-jimmy-cefalo","tag-news","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-schnitt","tag-south-florida","tag-the-weather-channel-wall-street-journal","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247192","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=247192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}