{"id":296467,"date":"2026-05-16T21:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296467\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:58:15","slug":"el-paso-zoo-evacuated-after-reports-of-a-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296467\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Zoo evacuated after reports of a bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times<\/p>\n<p>Updated Sat, May 16, 2026 at 9:18 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/e0d7a890b35d77decc20114dedc8aa3b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>El Paso Zoo evacuated after reports of a bomb threat<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso Zoo was evacuated as police continue to investigate a report of a bomb threat, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Police Department officers responded about 1:45 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, to a report of a bomb threat at the zoo located at 4001 E. Paisano Drive in South-Central El Paso, police said in an alert.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo was evacuated out of an abundance of caution, the alert states.<\/p>\n<p>No further information has been released.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information is released.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Martinez covers the criminal justice system for the El Paso Times. He may be reached at amartinez1@elpasotimes.com.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: <a data-ylk=\"slk:El Paso Zoo evacuated after reported bomb threat, police say;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/05\/16\/el-paso-zoo-evacuated-after-reports-of-a-bomb-threat\/90120421007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">El Paso Zoo evacuated after reported bomb threat, police say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times Updated Sat, May 16, 2026 at 9:18 PM UTC El Paso Zoo evacuated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19471,138,140,139,2263,31765,4604],"class_list":["post-296467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-bomb-threat","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-el-paso-zoo","tag-south-central-el-paso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296467","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=296467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}