{"id":378547,"date":"2025-12-30T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378547\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:14:08","slug":"arson-charge-filed-after-fire-at-sioux-city-wendys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378547\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson charge filed after fire at Sioux City Wendy\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SIOUX CITY (KTIV) &#8211; An 18-year-old is facing charges after firefighters in Sioux City were called to a fast-food restaurant on Gordon Drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Sioux City Police, first responders were sent to the Wendy\u2019s at 3805 Gordon Drive after getting a call on Tuesday, Dec. 30, reporting a fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The call came in at about 9 a.m., and police say customers and employees were evacuated from the building while Sioux City Fire Rescue extinguished the fire and secured the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAfter reviewing surveillance video, investigators were able to identify a suspect who they believed was responsible for setting the fire,\u201d stated the Sioux City Police Department in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say this suspect, identified as 18-year-old Malachi Neylon of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was located at a separate business a short distance from the Wendy\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Malachi Neylon\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/XK3KUANE3RC5HKQXQMQPHKUUPA.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Malachi Neylon(Woodbury County Jail)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Neylon is facing one count of first-degree arson and one count of fourth-degree criminal mischief. Under Iowa law, first-degree arson carries a possible sentence of up to 25 years in prison, and the criminal mischief charge is a misdemeanor that has a maximum penalty of one year in jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information related to this crime is asked to contact the Sioux City Police Department at (712) 279-6440 or Crime Stoppers at (712) 258-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Want to get the latest news and weather from Siouxland\u2019s News Source? Follow these links to download our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/page\/get-the-new-ktiv-news-app\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/page\/get-the-new-ktiv-news-app\/\">KTIV News app<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/page\/get-the-ktiv-weather-app\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/page\/get-the-ktiv-weather-app\/\">First Alert Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTIV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX CITY (KTIV) &#8211; An 18-year-old is facing charges after firefighters in Sioux City were called to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-378547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}