{"id":159435,"date":"2026-02-01T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159435\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:49:07","slug":"california-robbery-suspect-arrested-after-chase-and-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159435\/","title":{"rendered":"California robbery suspect arrested after chase and gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; A California robbery suspect was arrested Saturday, Jan. 31, after a traffic stop turned into a chase involving gunfire, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State troopers stopped 33-year-old Javier Ponziano around 12:30 p.m. on Mines Road. Troopers discovered he had active warrants out of California for robbery and a parole violation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers called for backup, and Ponziano took off. Troopers shot at the SUV\u2019s tires in an effort to stop the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The chase ended near Big Bend Road and Comet when Ponziano crashed into a patrol vehicle. DPS said no one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Customs and Border Protection officials were also involved. Ponziano now faces evading arrest charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more headlines, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgns.tv\/news\/local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KGNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; A California robbery suspect was arrested Saturday, Jan. 31, after a traffic stop turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,2602,14253,37445,20284,8346,77623,77624,2592,2480,77626,2131,564,11877,77625],"class_list":["post-159435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-charges","tag-chase","tag-department-of-public-safety","tag-dps","tag-evading-arrest","tag-kgns","tag-laredo","tag-pursuit","tag-robbery","tag-state-trooper","tag-suspect","tag-texas","tag-traffic-stop","tag-webb-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}