Ormond Beach police said a suspicious fire that engulfed a woman's car early Saturday was set by her ex-boyfriend with whom she was having problems over their four children.

Police said the man also wrote a note found clipped to the woman's mailbox Saturday that had the letters KKK on it plus racially offensive content. Not only that, but he also made it look like he was kidnapped from his Daytona Beach home on Sunday where another note was found along with blood drops in the driveway, police said.

The car fire incident led to the arrest of Vincent Palmer III, 27, who was charged with second-degree arson. He was being held Sunday night without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail, records show.

The ex-girlfriend, Staci Winn, 35, said Saturday afternoon that officers responding to 1285 Biltmore Drive in the Forest Hills subdivision found her 2015 Chevrolet Sonic engulfed in flames. Winn also told The News-Journal that a brick was found in the back seat of her car and that she suspected a hate crime after a racially offensive note directed at her children was found.

But Ormond Beach police said late Sunday that their investigations revealed that Palmer, who is black, wrote the note to Winn, who is white, so police would not suspect him, a report shows.

Investigations revealed that Palmer broke up with Winn in April and was having problems with her over their children, so he set the woman's car on fire, investigators said.

Palmer admitted to police that he left his job at Trader Joe's around 4:35 a.m. Saturday and stopped at a gas station to buy gasoline, which he carried in a soda bottle. He then went to Winn's home, parked his scooter by a dumpster near the entrance of the subdivision and walked the rest of the way to Winn's home, police said.

He then took the note he had written at work — which had the letters KKK plus a racially offensive message about the children on one side and the word "Trump" on the other side — and put it on Winn's mailbox. He broke the car window with the brick, set the car on fire, threw the empty soda bottle in a neighbor's trash can and ran, police said.

After officers arrived at the scene early Saturday, Winn called Palmer and he came to the scene. Ormond Beach police, who did not know then that Palmer had set the fire, ran a background check on him and discovered he had a warrant for his arrest for failure to pay child support, the report said.

According to the report, it appears Palmer got out of jail Sunday morning and at around 10:08 a.m., a family member at the Madison Avenue home in Daytona Beach found a note. Again, the note had a reference to the KKK on it and a racially offensive message. Blood drops were also found in the driveway, police said.

Palmer's grandfather called the Daytona Beach police to report that Palmer had been kidnapped, the report said.

Daytona Beach police contacted Ormond Beach police because they had arrested him the day before. Palmer was found at a Burger King on U.S. 1 in Ormond Beach, authorities said.

Palmer initially gave Ormond Beach police a fake name, but when the officer who arrested him the night before got to the scene, he gave his correct name, police said.

Palmer then admitted to setting the fire because of issues he was having with Winn over the children and admitted to writing the notes "to keep investigating officers from thinking he was the suspect," police wrote in the report.

Police determined that no hate crime occurred and that neither Palmer nor Winn were ever threatened or were in danger from anyone because Palmer wrote the notes, police said.

As for the blood, Palmer "pricked his own finger and spread the blood around to add to the abduction illusion," investigators said.