{"id":333635,"date":"2026-07-08T22:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333635\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:06:36","slug":"watch-man-carries-flaming-propane-tank-inside-tampa-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333635\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Man carries flaming propane tank inside Tampa restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A man is facing arson charges in Tampa after Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies found him inside a restaurant July 7 with a flaming propane tank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At about 8:45 a.m., deputies responded to a restaurant on West Waters Avenue after a report of an assault in progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When deputies arrived, they found the business filled with smoke and flames. Surveillance video from the restaurant shows a man setting a propane tank inside the business with flames coming from the valve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A second propane tank outside the building was also on fire, deputies said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies confronted a man later identified as Rubiel Maceo Castillo, 53, inside the restaurant holding two knives. Deputies gave the man commands at gunpoint to drop the knives and surrender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Castillo faces multiple charges, including first-degree arson of an occupied structure.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A man is facing arson charges in Tampa after Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[137618,137619,89896,135,137,136,1045],"class_list":["post-333635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-asron","tag-flaming","tag-propane","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}