SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A man was arrested after he allegedly torched his girlfriend\u2019s shed following a phone argument.<\/p>\n
The incident began on Monday, April 13, with a phone argument between 31-year-old Joe Rudy Cruz and his girlfriend, according to an arrest affidavit. <\/p>\n
Cruz was at Kingsborough Park after he sent his girlfriend a video message, and the situation escalated into a phone argument. Reports say that Cruz later showed up at his girlfriend\u2019s house and began throwing rocks into her yard.<\/p>\n
According to police, his girlfriend discovered her shed was on fire after smelling smoke while putting her son to sleep. The fire destroyed the shed and a portion of a wooden fence near it.<\/p>\n
In a voice message obtained by police, Cruz allegedly admitted he was “playing with a torch” while intoxicated and mistakenly thought he had extinguished the flame.<\/p>\n
Cruz was arrested on Friday and faces a second-degree felony charge of arson, jail records say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A man was arrested after he allegedly torched his girlfriend\u2019s shed following a phone argument.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-287830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287830","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=287830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}