{"id":249787,"date":"2026-04-14T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249787\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:41:12","slug":"16-year-old-turns-himself-in-for-arson-at-apartment-complex-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249787\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old turns himself in for arson at apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Fire Rescue said a 16-year-old boy turned himself in to his lawyer on Monday morning and was taken into custody on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LFR said the juvenile was taken to the Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center without incident and is charged with arson, which is a first-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lubbock Fire Rescue received a 911 call at approximately 4 p.m. last week reporting a fire that had started next to an apartment building and was rapidly spreading toward nearby structures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">First-arriving units encountered heavy smoke coming from the rear of the apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fire crews contained and extinguished the fire before it could extend into the apartment building. The fire was contained to a patch of grass and a fence line, preventing further damage to the structure and surrounding residences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Fire Rescue said a 16-year-old boy turned himself in to his lawyer on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12871,12183,39960,630,319,11770,66,168,9759,170,169,223,92456,3175,374,375],"class_list":{"0":"post-249787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-apartment","9":"tag-arson","10":"tag-assistance","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-kcbd","13":"tag-lfr","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-lubbock","16":"tag-lubbock-fire-rescue","17":"tag-lubbock-headlines","18":"tag-lubbock-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-publics-help","21":"tag-rescue","22":"tag-south-plains","23":"tag-west-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249787","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=249787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}