{"id":402219,"date":"2026-09-17T05:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402219\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:04:11","slug":"florida-woman-allegedly-set-stranger-on-fire-at-a-gas-station-because-she-wouldnt-give-her-any-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402219\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman allegedly set stranger on fire at a gas station because she wouldn\u2019t give her any money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (TCN) &#8212;\u00a0A 41-year-old woman was arrested and charged with arson and attempted murder in connection with an alleged altercation at a gas station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StPetePD\/posts\/arson-injures-a-womanan-arson-occurred-last-night-september-10-at-about-8-pm-whi\/1539149294923818\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According to the St. Petersburg Police Department<\/a>, a woman was pumping gas on the evening of Sept. 10 when Eleanor Crawford allegedly approached her and ignited gasoline with a lighter. The car immediately went up in flames, and the victim was taken to the hospital for treatment of second-degree burns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before the alleged incident, Crawford allegedly asked the victim to use her phone,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/woman-set-fire-stranger-st-pete-gas-station-hospitalized-burns-sppd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WTVT reports<\/a>. The victim allowed her to use it, and then Crawford allegedly asked her for money. The victim reportedly told her no, and Crawford allegedly ignited the gas pump with a lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford was arrested a few blocks from the scene, according to police. Per court records obtained by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2026\/09\/13\/stranger-sets-woman-pumping-gas-fire-leaving-her-with-serious-burns-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WCSC<\/a>, she is facing charges of arson and attempted murder and is being held on $350,000 bond. WTVT reports she has an extensive criminal record that includes drug- and alcohol-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (TCN) &#8212;\u00a0A 41-year-old woman was arrested and charged with arson and attempted murder in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-402219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402219","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=402219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}