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A South Florida firefighter is accused of chasing down four teens who ding-dong-ditched at his family’s Lighthouse Point home and hitting them with a bat, police said.

Alex Michael Lutz, 31, a Highland Beach Fire Rescue firefighter, faces six charges, some felonies, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and criminal mischief of $200 or less, according to an arrest warrant. He turned himself in Monday at the Lighthouse Point Police Department.

Ding-dong ditching is a prank where someone rings a doorbell or knocks on someone’s door and runs away before the resident opens the door. There have been several recent cases both in South Florida and throughout the country in

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