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CLOSE A 64-year-old man accused of lighting a Dumpster on fire told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s investigators he wanted to “run the Arabs out of our country.” WILL GREENLEE/TCPALM.COM WILL GREENLEE/TCPALM.COM 
  
 Richard Lloyd (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO FROM ST. LUCIE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE) 
  
 PORT ST. LUCIE — A 64-year-old man accused of lighting a fire in a dumpster and trying to burn a business told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office investigators he wanted to “run the Arabs out of our country,” an arrest affidavit states. 
  
 Richard Lloyd, of the 400 block of North U.S. 1 in Fort Pierce, was arrested Friday on a felony arson charge after the incidents that day at a convenience store in the 100 block of Northwest Prima Vista Boulevard. 
  
 When deputies arrived, Lloyd put his hands behind his back and told them to take him away. 
  
 The St. Lucie County Fire District extinguished the dumpster fire. The building’s front had smoke damage. 
  
 Lloyd told investigators he went there to buy orange pineapple juice a few days earlier. He said the store doesn’t sell it, which made him mad. He also assumed an employee was Muslim, which made him mad. 
  
 Lloyd, who said he has a history of mental health issues, told investigators he was “doing his part for America” and planned to get a big enough fire going in the dumpster that it would set the building on fire. 
  
 No one was at the business at the time. 
  
 Lloyd was held Friday in the St. Lucie County jail on $30,000 bail, a jail official said. 
  
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– Authorities say a 64-year-old Florida man tried to burn down a convenience store Friday because he thought it was owned by Muslims. It wasn't. The Palm Beach Post reports sheriff's deputies were called to a Met Mart in St. Lucie for reports of a suspicious person. Deputies say Richard Lloyd had rolled a dumpster in front of the store's doors and set it on fire, according to WPTV. He surrendered without incident, and deputies put out the fire. Lloyd, who has been charged with arson, says he went to the Met Mart a few days earlier and became mad because there was a Muslim working there and also because the store didn't sell orange pineapple juice, TC Palm reports. According to authorities, Lloyd said he wanted to burn the store down to "run the Arabs out of our country" and do "his part for America." The sheriff's office says the store owners are actually "of Indian descent." It's unclear at this point if Lloyd will face hate crime charges. The store was closed at the time of the incident but suffered some smoke damage.