EL PASO, Texas \u2014 A 41-year-old man was taken into custody after allegedly threatening shoppers with a knife at the Outlet Shoppes at El Paso.<\/p>\n
Joseph Yvan Rechy, of El Paso, Texas, faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and making a terroristic threat causing fear of imminent serious bodily injury, according to a press release from the El Paso Police Department. Officers responded to the 7000 block of S. Desert Blvd on June 12, 2026, at 1:55 p.m. after reports of a disturbance involving Rechy, who reportedly approached multiple individuals while brandishing a knife and making stabbing motions. He also allegedly approached a woman carrying a young child.<\/p>\n
Rechy was arrested and charged with the listed offenses, with a total bond set at $84,000. No injuries were reported during the incident, and the investigation remains ongoing, stated the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas \u2014 A 41-year-old man was taken into custody after allegedly threatening shoppers with a knife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[294,10813,138,140,139,7841,15452,27,6878,15005],"class_list":["post-338856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-injury","tag-knife","tag-texas","tag-violence","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338856","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=338856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}