{"id":207085,"date":"2026-03-16T17:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:54:18","slug":"el-paso-police-arrest-man-accused-of-threatening-stepfather-with-knife-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207085\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso police arrest man accused of threatening stepfather with knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police arrested 38-year-old Rodolfo Marcelino Rodriguez after a reported domestic disturbance in the 9500 block of Martinique Drive on March 13 in the Lower Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the El Paso Police Department responded at about 3:30 p.m. to a report of an aggravated assault in progress. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/domestic-disturbance-report-prompts-police-investigation-in-el-pasos-lower-valley-texas-tx-martinique-loop-375-socorro-eppd-police-department?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police: 37-year-old man taken into custody after Lower Valley SWAT standoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said they met with a 66-year-old man who reported that his step-son, Rodriguez, confronted him inside the residence and threatened him with a kitchen knife.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Rodriguez also sprayed the victim in the face with an air freshener. <\/p>\n<p>The victim fled the home and called the police for help.<\/p>\n<p>Additional assistance was requested, and SWAT responded to the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect initially stayed inside the home but later surrendered and was taken into custody. <\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez was later booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on a $35,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Monday, a judge lowered Rodriguez&#8217;s bond to $10,000 with the following conditions:<\/p>\n<p>Must report to a parole officer.<\/p>\n<p>Not be arrested again.Not possess weapons.Not take alcohol or drugsNo contact with his stepfather.Stay away from the stepfather&#8217;s home Submit to a mental health screening. <\/p>\n<p>As of Monday morning, jail records show Rodriguez remains in jail.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-aggravated-assault-in-northeast-el-paso?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1 woman hospitalized after aggravated assault at Northeast El Paso gas station<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police arrested 38-year-old Rodolfo Marcelino Rodriguez after a reported domestic disturbance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-207085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207085","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=207085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}