{"id":72396,"date":"2025-07-18T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72396\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:31:11","slug":"man-accused-of-intentionally-setting-fire-to-residential-building-bexar-county-fire-marshals-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72396\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of intentionally setting fire to residential building, Bexar County Fire Marshal\u2019s Office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>BEXAR COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A 37-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder, among other charges, after he lit a residential building on fire, according to the Bexar County Fire Marshal\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Iker Sanchez \u2014 who\u2019s currently jailed at the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on an immigration detainer \u2014 was charged with arson of habitation, attempted murder and terroristic threat, the fire marshal\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He was taken into custody on Wednesday with the assistance of multiple law enforcement agencies, including San Antonio police\u2019s Raven Unit, in the 1600 block of Michigan Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Earlier on Wednesday, the Von Ormy Police Department was dispatched to a disturbance in southwest Bexar County for reports of a man who attempted to set a building on fire, according to the fire marshal\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Through further investigation, the fire marshal\u2019s office determined that Sanchez had intentionally set the fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Sanchez was booked into the Bexar County jail on a $170,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>More crime coverage on KSAT:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2013 A 37-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder, among other charges, after he lit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,8339,7288,4219,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-72396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arson","10":"tag-bexar-county","11":"tag-crime","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\/114873780383041702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72396","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=72396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}