A teenager is under arrest this evening, charged with starting a brush fire in Lehigh Acres that destroyed a home and forced the evacuations of nervous residents throughout the day. An investigation by Lee County sheriff’s detectives and investigators with the Florida Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement culminated in the arrest of Kaiden Paolino, 15 years old. Paolino is charged with Arson, a felony.
The investigation reveals Paolino was playing with a lighter in the area of National Avenue S. and Ravenswood Street E. and caused the brush fire.