Police Say Venezuelan National Lit Home On Fire While Three Children Were Inside

 A Venezuelan migrant was charged and arrested after he allegedly lit his house on fire while his three children were trapped inside the building.

Pedro Luis Parra Pulgar, a 46-year-old Venezuelan national, is alleged to have purposefully lit his home on fire while his three children, ages 15, 15, and three were trapped inside the Fulshear, Texas, residence, located just outside of Houston.

The two 15-year-old children escaped the inferno before authorities arrived, with police officers rescuing the three-year-old child. The child had to be airlifted to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation and has since been released from the hospital. Pulgar sustained minor injuries in the fire.

Pulgar was arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder and one count of arson and is now being held in Fort Bend County Jail with a bond of $2.25 million. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has placed a detainer on Pulgar, indicating that he could be illegally present in the United States.

The horrific incident provoked a response from Texas Governor Greg Abbott. “A Venezuelan immigrant – legal status unknown – is accused of setting a Texas house on fire with three children inside,” Abbott said in a post on X. “He better spend the rest of his life behind bars.”

 

The alleged attempt by Pulgar to murder his three children comes amid a wave of alleged migrant crimes. Just last week another migrant was also arrested outside of Houston, with this individual, a Guatemalan national named Jorge Agapito Ventura, being apprehended by federal agents over his alleged involvement in a human smuggling operation.

Ventura is believed to be one of the illegal alien smugglers involved with a smuggling operation that led to the death of more than 50 migrants when a trailer truck crashed three years ago in Chiapas, Mexico.

He was apprehended in a joint operation by the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and the local sheriff at his residence in Colony Ridge, a massive land development that The Daily Wire warned is a magnet for illegal aliens.