A 40-year-old man confessed to starting a fire Tuesday afternoon in his former Lake Worth home, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office records show.

Cesar Lopez-Sales told investigators he’d used a lighter to set fire to a bed in the home on North F Street, near the intersection of Dixie Highway and Lucerne Avenue.

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Lopez-Sales recently was kicked out of the home due to his excessive alcohol use and inability to pay rent, the man who leases the home told sheriff’s officials.

No one was in the home at the time of the fire.

Sheriff’s officials took Lopez-Sales into custody Thursday afternoon after they found him with an open container about a block from where the fire occurred.

The Guatemala citizen faces a second-degree arson charge. A judge will set his bond at a hearing Friday morning.