{"id":329603,"date":"2026-06-09T20:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/329603\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:34:24","slug":"el-paso-police-arrest-armed-person-after-standoff-on-loop-375-roads-re-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/329603\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso police arrest armed person after standoff on Loop 375; roads re-open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso police arrested an armed person after a standoff Monday morning that closed off Loop 375 at Purple Heart. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, a suspect is in police custody after they say there was a crash and responding officers found a suspect barricaded in his vehicle with a weapon in the area of Purple Heart\/ Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Call came in at around 10:43 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>EPPD said the crash involved one vehicle hitting a barricade. <\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported except for the suspect, who suffered a dog bite from a K9. <\/p>\n<p>The standoff closed the area for a couple of hours. <\/p>\n<p>Video shared on the popular social media account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/therealfitfamelpaso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@therealfitfamelpaso<\/a> shows the scene.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p><p>Loop 375 area shut down as El Paso police respond to person with a weapon. Credit: FitFam<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Below is EPPD spokesperson sharing details after the scene was cleared:<\/p>\n<p><p>EPPD PIO Detective Judy Oviedo provides an update on the Loop 375 incident involving an armed person. June 8, 2026. Credit: KFOX14\/CBS4<\/p>\n<\/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<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso police arrested an armed person after a standoff Monday morning that closed off Loop 375 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-329603","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\/329603","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=329603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}