After allegedly arguing with his girlfriend and setting fire to their New Jersey house, a 50-year-old man was taken into custody.

According to a release obtained by PEOPLE, the South Brunswick Police Department received a 911 call in the early hours of Tuesday, Sept. 3 at around 2:58 a.m. local time, requesting that authorities force Leonard Jones IV to leave the property after a “dispute” with his partner.

“A second 911 call said the house was on fire as the officers were responding. The announcement, which was also posted on Instagram with numerous images of the incident, stated that the first officer arrived in less than a minute and saw fire through the roof of the house.

Jones was apprehended, according to Police Chief Raymond Hayducka. The press announcement stated that the South Brunswick native was accused of domestic abuse and aggravated arson.

Along with the suspect, the three occupants of the 155 Old Beekman Road property were reported to have left safely by the officers. The girlfriend’s parents’ house was the one that was set on fire, deputy chief James Ryan revealed to PEOPLE.

“Jones was lodged in the Middlesex County Correction Center pending his first court appearance,” the announcement read.

All three of the Township’s fire departments—Kendall Park, Monmouth Junction, and Kingston—as well as the fire departments of a few nearby towns, battled the two-alarm fire. The police verified that all three emergency medical services—Kendall Park, Monmouth Junction, and North Brunswick.

“We were here two times earlier, once for a noise complaint at about midnight, that noise was abated, and then we got a call about 10 minutes before the fire that there was an out-of-control male at the residence, officers then got a call a fire had broken out, seemed to be out of control, officers responded, by the time they got here, the house was fully engulfed,” South Brunswick Police Department Detective Tim Hoover said, according to the outlet.