{"id":402188,"date":"2026-08-10T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402188\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:44:08","slug":"christmas-morning-arson-suspects-accused-of-setting-2-vehicles-on-fire-in-east-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402188\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas morning arson: Suspects accused of setting 2 vehicles on fire in East El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Two vehicles were set on fire early Christmas morning in an East El Paso neighborhood, and investigators are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso Fire Department Fire Marshal\u2019s Office said that on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025, at 4:09 a.m., two men were recorded setting fire to a 2021 Cadillac Escalade and a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado Z71 in the 12100 block of Saint Armand. Investigators said the suspects fled the scene and returned 10 minutes later to reignite and accelerate the fires.<\/p>\n<p>Arson investigators said the men had filled water bottles with gas at a Circle K store at 1600 N. Zaragoza.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators described the first suspect as Hispanic, in his late 20s to early 30s, with an average build. He was wearing a black hooded jacket and blue denim jeans. The second suspect was wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and dark pants.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were driving a four-door car, possibly a Toyota or Lexus, with dents on the doors, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 566-8477 (TIPS) or submit a tip online at www.cselpaso.org.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/i-10-east-at-airway-remains-closed-after-early-morning-vehicle-pedestrian-collision?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pedestrian suffers life-threatening injuries in I-10 hit-and-run near Airway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.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 to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Two vehicles were set on fire early Christmas morning in an East El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-402188","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\/402188","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=402188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}