{"id":213349,"date":"2026-03-10T16:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213349\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:47:28","slug":"sacramento-apartment-complex-flooded-by-broken-pipe-vandalism-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213349\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento apartment complex flooded by broken pipe; vandalism suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several units at a downtown Sacramento apartment complex flooded late Monday night after someone vandalized a pipe, police said.<\/p>\n<p>First responders were called to the scene near 7th and H streets just before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Water was found coming out from the front of the building, with Sacramento Fire crews saying that it appeared someone had tampered with a standpipe on the third floor. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/11p-v-flooded-sac-apart-kmaxf5et.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"11p-v-flooded-sac-apart-kmaxf5et.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of the flooding late Monday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In total, firefighters say eight units were impacted by the flooding. It&#8217;s unclear how many residents were impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento police said they arrested 54-year-old Richard Bechtel in connection to the pipe vandalism. <\/p>\n<p>A full damage assessment is pending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several units at a downtown Sacramento apartment complex flooded late Monday night after someone vandalized a pipe, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-213349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}