{"id":371837,"date":"2026-07-13T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:59:07","slug":"san-antonio-community-seeks-justice-as-man-caught-on-video-allegedly-causing-mischief-in-beacon-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371837\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio community seeks justice as man caught on video allegedly causing mischief in Beacon Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is under investigation after being caught on video turning on a home&#8217;s outdoor faucet, wasting a large amount of water. <\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The video is dark and grainy, but neighbors said it offers proof of an act of vandalism that makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>Beacon Hill neighbors said it happened Sunday about 2 a.m. about three blocks east of I-10, a few blocks south of Hildebrand Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a man wearing a safety vest wandering the street and then walking into the yard of a corner house.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<\/p>\n<p role=\"heading\" class=\"article-recirculation__title\">&#13;<br \/>\n                    More in Crime&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        <a class=\"article-recirculation__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/video\/news\/crime\/7-crosses-at-memorial-on-quintana-road-damaged-again-police-investigating\/273-c9a1aa60-cd98-42a1-bebb-8af44085a9ff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img   alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                    7 crosses at memorial on Quintana Road damaged again, police investigating&#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;\n                            <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>His visit lasted just a few seconds. Neighbors said he turned a water faucet on full force and walked away. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner said the torrent of water wasn&#8217;t discovered until about five hours later.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when landscaping water restrictions are at Stage 3, and limited to one day of the week, several neighbors said the blatant waste of water was aggravating.<\/p>\n<p>One neighbor, whose security cameras captured the incident, said the man responsible is well known in the area for causing trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The man said, &#8220;This guy just runs up and down the streets seeing what he can steal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said neighbors have been communicating with one another and have compiled a list of incidents the man has been involved in over time.<\/p>\n<p>The list is four pages of single-spaced information.<\/p>\n<p>They have San Antonio police case numbers and video to back up many of their allegations.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to the latest incident, the neighbor said, &#8220;He sees the guy&#8217;s water faucet and thinks, &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;m going to mess with him and see if I can get away with it.&#8217; He turns the guy&#8217;s water faucet on full blast, and this is 2 a.m. and it ran until 7 a.m.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exasperated man continued &#8220;This is what he does every night. He just sees what mischief he can get into.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is an active SAPD investigation into the incident. If a criminal mischief case moves forward, based on the cost of the water wasted, it should be considered a Class B Misdemeanor with a possible penalty range of up to 180 days in jail and up to a $2,000 fine upon conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbor, who also produced video of the man going after a worker from the city&#8217;s Animal Care Services division and another clip of the man approaching a car parked on the block and attempting to bash the windows during a disturbance, said &#8220;He&#8217;s just a terrorizer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because the man has not been charged, KENS 5 is not naming him.<\/p>\n<p>Several neighbors said there are surveillance cameras and warning signs all over this block to protect themselves from the continuing threat.<\/p>\n<p>They said because this guy won&#8217;t quit, neither will they.<\/p>\n<p>They said they hope justice will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is under investigation after being caught on video turning on a home&#8217;s outdoor faucet, wasting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-371837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371837","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=371837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}