{"id":104139,"date":"2025-12-29T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104139\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:52:12","slug":"attempted-kidnapping-suspect-held-by-residents-until-deputies-could-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104139\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted kidnapping suspect held by residents until deputies could arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christopher-garza-mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Christopher Garza, 28 (Source: Williamson County, TX Sheriff&#8217;s Office) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Bystanders at a Williamson County park intervened to stop an attempted kidnapping of a young girl on Saturday afternoon, according to the Williamson County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>   Attempted kidnapping stopped by bystanders <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Deputies responded to a 911 call at Berry Springs Park, located just outside the Georgetown city limits, at around 1:30 p.m. When law enforcement arrived, they found 28-year-old Christopher Garza being restrained by several witnesses.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to investigators, the witnesses reported seeing Garza trying to kidnap a juvenile female. The girl\u2019s age was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Garza was taken into custody and then to a local hospital for treatment of injuries sustained before deputies arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Sheriff Matt Lindemann praised the actions of the park-goers in a statement released following the arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;I would like to commend and thank the citizens who intervened and acted swiftly to protect a child from harm,&#8221; Lindemann said. &#8220;While incidents like this are rare in Williamson County, it is truly a blessing that the citizens in the park responded quickly and decisively to ensure a child\u2019s safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Authorities stated they believe the attempted kidnapping was an isolated incident and that there is no ongoing threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Garza has been charged with attempted kidnapping and failure to identify by giving false or fictitious information. A judge set bond at $100,000 for the kidnapping charge and $3,000 for the failure to identify charge.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking anyone with information regarding the case to contact their tip line at 512-943-1311 or Williamson County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-253-7867.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Williamson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/williamson-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williamson County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Christopher Garza, 28 (Source: Williamson County, TX Sheriff&#8217;s Office) WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Bystanders at a Williamson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-104139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}