VIDEO: Florida man arrested after leaving debit card at gas station he allegedly burglarized

A Florida man was arrested after breaking into a gas station convenience store, taking some items, and leaving his debit card on the counter, the Flagler County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post.

"I didn't want to steal anything. That's against the law," Lantz Kurtz, 20, told officers about why he allegedly left his debit card on the counter of the Palm Coast gas station.

"It's all on the security camera, I'm sure," the Cocoa Beach 20-year-old added. He said he left the card "so that I could come back later and pay for it ... just so that [the convenience store owner] could know my name."

Lantz was right about one thing. His actions were, indeed, caught on the store's surveillance camera. It was that footage, coupled with the debit card, that led police officers to him.

In the video, Lantz says he broke in to the gas station's back door with a knife.

Deputies responded to an alarm activation at the station early in the morning on February 5. They reportedly found the front door unlocked and Kurtz's debit card on the counter near the register.

After seeing surveillance footage provided by the store owner, officers reportedly recognized Kurtz from a vehicle fire near the gas station earlier that same night.

In the video below, Lantz is standing alongside his disabled car interacting with the officers who apprehended him.

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