{"id":135399,"date":"2025-08-10T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135399\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:18:22","slug":"chachos-restaurant-evacuated-after-reported-bomb-threat-attempted-arson-sapd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135399\/","title":{"rendered":"Chacho\u2019s restaurant evacuated after reported bomb threat, attempted arson, SAPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAPD: Person who started the fire was a \u201cformer disgruntled employee\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police lights and sirens (Copyright 2024 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 A Chacho\u2019s restaurant on the Northeast Side was evacuated early Sunday after a reported bomb threat and attempted arson, according to the San Antonio Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officers were dispatched to the Chacho\u2019s around 12:15 a.m. Sunday in the 8600 block of Perrin Beitel. Police said they contacted employees by phone to have them evacuate the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The San Antonio Fire Department extinguished a small fire at the scene. The fire was determined to have started from an \u201cincendiary device,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officers believe the person who started the fire was a \u201cformer disgruntled employee\u201d who was seen fleeing from the fire on foot, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">No arrests have been made as of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Additional information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<img alt=\"Gabby Jimenez headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754864302_248_6f405105-68e0-4721-82b0-eacaa42dd648.png\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/GJIE9RFO0GJW09UWER09WEFWEE\/\" title=\"View Gabby Jimenez&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabby Jimenez<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Gabby Jimenez is a digital journalist at KSAT. Gabby is a San Antonio native and joined the KSAT team in January 2025. A proud LSU alumna, she has reported for newspapers in Louisiana and Virginia, earning a Virginia Press Association award for Combination Photo and Story in 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAPD: Person who started the fire was a \u201cformer disgruntled employee\u201d Police lights and sirens (Copyright 2024 by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,4219,5025,988,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-135399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-restaurants","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sapd","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115006793584272839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}