{"id":350809,"date":"2026-06-26T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:30:11","slug":"arlington-man-arrested-for-making-false-911-call-about-shooting-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350809\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington man arrested for making false 911 call about shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington police say a 41-year-old man called 911 saying someone was shot, but that turned out not to be true, police say. <\/p>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Arlington police have arrested a man they said made a false report about a shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers got the call at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday to a motel in the 3000 block of Abram St. with a guest saying someone had been shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, police say they found no evidence of a shooting or any crime occurred. They said they did talk to 41-year-old Oscar Vela Jr. who admitted to making the false report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vela Jr. has been charged with one count of False Report Inducing Emergency Response. Police said he also had other outstanding misdemeanor warrants and was booked on those as well.<\/p>\n<p>Jail records show Vela Jr.&#8217;s current bond has been set at just over $4,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington police say a 41-year-old man called 911 saying someone was shot, but that turned out not to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-350809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350809","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=350809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}