{"id":461845,"date":"2026-10-10T04:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461845\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T04:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:18:07","slug":"two-men-arrested-in-30000-construction-site-theft-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461845\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested in $30,000 construction site theft, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Two men have been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $30,000 in property from new construction sites in southern Bexar County.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Pedro Damian Jeronimo Martinez, 23, and Melvin Jonatan Acosta Martinez, 39, were taken into custody Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators traced a suspect vehicle linked to the thefts. After locating the vehicle, deputies executed a search warrant and encountered both men at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Both suspects admitted to their involvement in stealing property from construction sites in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Jeronimo Martinez was charged with theft of property valued between $750 and $2,500. Acosta Martinez faces a higher-tier charge of theft of property valued between $30,000 and $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released additional details regarding the specific items stolen or the construction sites impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Two men have been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $30,000 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-461845","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\/461845","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=461845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}