{"id":465024,"date":"2026-10-13T19:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465024\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:58:11","slug":"el-paso-area-driver-accused-of-5k-in-damage-in-road-rage-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465024\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso-area driver accused of $5K in damage in ‘road rage’ attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Paso County sheriff’s investigators arrested a driver accused of causing an estimated $5,000 in damages in a violent rock-throwing “road rage”<\/a> confrontation in the Eastlake area.<\/p>\n

Deputies with the Special Operations Unit arrested Edgar Sanchez, 32, in connection with a “road rage” case on Oct. 9 on Eastlake Boulevard at the Rojas Drive intersection, a news release by sheriff’s spokeswoman Priscilla I. Contreras stated.<\/p>\n

El Paso County Sheriff’s Office: Overtime concerns cancel sheriff patrols for Usher, Chris Brown concert<\/a><\/p>\n

Portions of the roadway confrontation were recorded on bystander cell phone video and shared on social media.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A driver, allegedly identified as Edgar Sanchez, appears to throw rocks at a car during a “road rage” confrontation near the intersection of Eastlake Boulevard and Rojas Drive in El Paso County in a cell phone video image on Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n

The confrontation erupted after a traffic dispute between two drivers about 1 p.m. Oct. 9 on Eastlake Boulevard, the Sheriff’s Office stated.<\/p>\n

During an argument, Sanchez allegedly picked up and threw several rocks, breaking the windows of a BMW and striking a 27-year-old man in the back, causing visible injuries, the Sheriff’s Office stated.<\/p>\n

The video shows what appear to be broken pieces of a vehicle on the street during the dispute.<\/p>\n

An investigation by the Special Operations Unit, known as SOU, obtained additional video footage and evidence that led to the arrest of Sanchez, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"Edgar<\/p>\n

Edgar Sanchez was arrested on aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief charges for allegedly throwing rocks at a car and another driver during a “road rage” confrontation in the Eastlake area of El Paso County.<\/p>\n

Deputies arrested Sanchez late Saturday night, Oct. 10, at a home on Mill Hill Court in Horizon City, sheriff’s officials said.<\/p>\n

Sanchez was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a charge of criminal mischief causing more than $2,500 in damage, making it a state jail felony. He was booked into the El Paso County jail on a total bond of $15,000.<\/p>\n

Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com and @BorundaDaniel<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: El Paso-area driver accused of $5K in damage in ‘road rage’ attack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso County sheriff’s investigators arrested a driver accused of causing an estimated $5,000 in damages in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-465024","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\/465024","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=465024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}