{"id":105822,"date":"2025-12-31T04:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105822\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:11:21","slug":"good-samaritans-foil-attempted-kidnapping-of-girl-at-central-texas-park-restrain-suspect-while-deputies-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105822\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritans foil attempted kidnapping of girl at Central Texas park; restrain suspect while deputies arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">GEORGETOWN, Texas (KWTX) &#8211;<\/a> A group of Good Samaritans foiled the attempted kidnapping of a girl and restrained the suspected kidnapper while sheriff\u2019s deputies arrived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident happened Dec. 27 at about 1:30 p.m. at Berry Springs Park, located just outside the Georgetown city limits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Christopher Garza, 28, was arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping and failure to identify. He was jailed on bonds totaling $103,000. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Christopher Garza\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/VABUEHXPPVEKBGXN7L2FF23MXY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"980\" \/>Christopher Garza(KWTX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies arrived at the park soon after receiving a 911 call about the attempted kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Once at the scene, they noticed a group of people restraining Garza. Witnesses at the told the deputies Garza was confronted as he attempted to kidnap a girl. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI would like to commend and thank the citizens who intervened and acted swiftly to protect a child from harm,\u201d said Williamson County Sheriff Matt Lindemann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhile 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEORGETOWN, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A group of Good Samaritans foiled the attempted kidnapping of a girl and restrained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47736,47735,12268,27,29,28,2538],"class_list":["post-105822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-attempted-kidnapping","tag-christopher-garza","tag-georgetown","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-williamson-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105822","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=105822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}