{"id":274432,"date":"2026-04-18T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274432\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:06:08","slug":"woman-charged-with-arson-after-weekend-fire-in-oakland-city-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274432\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with arson after weekend fire in Oakland City, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; A woman from Oakland City is now in custody, after authorities say, she\u2019s accused of arson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to booking records from the Gibson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, 46-year-old Julie Benton of Oakland City was arrested on a charge of arson Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Julie Benton\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/C3O7EOYZXNBHLDCQ7DBUZIDDJQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Julie Benton(Gibson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Benton is currently being held without bond, per the jail\u2019s intake report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fire crews were out in the early morning hours Saturday at a home in the 500 block of East Columbia Street in Oakland City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews from Barton Township Fire and Francisco Fire assisted East Gibson in putting that fire out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The home suffered heavy damage and those living nearby say they could hear some explosions coming from the house, as well as seeing some downed power lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No word yet on any injuries from this house fire.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFIE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; A woman from Oakland City is now in custody, after authorities say, she\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[118897,118899,6978,118898,143,118896,145,144],"class_list":["post-274432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arson-charge","tag-east-columbia-street","tag-house-fire","tag-julie-benton","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-city-indiana","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274432","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=274432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}