{"id":117595,"date":"2026-01-10T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117595\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:32:11","slug":"two-accused-of-christmas-day-assault-in-far-east-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117595\/","title":{"rendered":"Two accused of Christmas Day assault in Far East El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Two El Pasoans are charged with assault after an altercation on Christmas Day 2025. El Paso Police just released information about the alleged assaults today.<\/p>\n<p>Raquel Maria Cazares, 32, is charged with one counts of Assault Causing Bodily Injury. Joshua Aaron Theocharides, 32, is charged with three counts of Aggravated Assault w\/Deadly Weapon. That is according to El Paso Police Department officials.<\/p>\n<p>In the early morning hours of Christmas Day, police say that Cazares and Theocharides arrived at a house on the 13000 block of Alfredo Apodaca in Far East El Paso.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/C-and-T.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1438071\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Officials say that Cazares allegedly assaulted one of the victims, a 27-year-old woman. Police officials say that Theocharides then pulled out a handgun and allegedly pointed it at the victims, a 27-year-old woman, a 25-year-old woman, and a 23-year-old woman. Police say that Theocharides allegedly hit the women with the gun, then ran off.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested Cazares and Theocharides and booked them into jail on January 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Two El Pasoans are charged with assault after an altercation on Christmas Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-117595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}