{"id":277471,"date":"2026-04-20T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:51:09","slug":"fresnos-popular-tacos-el-cabezon-restaurant-owner-missing-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277471\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno&#8217;s Popular Tacos El Cabezon Restaurant Owner Missing: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/cabezontacos.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tacos El Cabezon<\/a> shop in Fresno is missing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Armando Arias\u00a0has been missing for several days, according to the Fresno Police Department, which received a missing persons report Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes nearly two months after Arias opened a new location for his restaurant in downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calls to Arias and to the restaurant did not go through. Social media reported that the restaurant has been closed since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Arias Opened His First Brick-and-Mortar in 2025<\/p>\n<p>On social media, Arias said he came to Fresno from Bell Garden after dropping out of high school.\u00a0 In 2022, he started Tacos El Cabezon as a street vendor selling tacos \u201cillegally,\u201d he wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>By 2025, he opened his first store front at Shaw and Maroa avenues.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Shaw Avenue and downtown Fresno locations were well known for long lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner of the popular Tacos El Cabezon shop in Fresno is missing, police said. Armando Arias\u00a0has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-277471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277471","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=277471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}