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A 22-year-old Kent man has been charged with first-degree arson for allegedly stripping naked and setting fire to his clothes inside an elevator at the Westin Hotel in downtown Bellevue.

Security officers had to physically restrain Gregory Berrie Lynn when they found him naked about 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 13 inside an open elevator in the new hotel at Lincoln Square, charging papers state.

They were responding to a fire alarm when one of the guards saw smoke coming from the elevator pavilion. He went inside to get a better look and saw flames coming out of the west elevator. He then saw a naked man dancing around the flames and holding his hands out to them as if to warm them up.