{"id":111164,"date":"2026-01-05T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111164\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:54:08","slug":"heavily-armed-officer-seen-on-houston-freeway-after-pursuit-of-military-style-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111164\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavily Armed Officer Seen on Houston Freeway After Pursuit of Military-Style Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A heavily armed SWAT officer was seen on a Houston freeway as authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HCSOTexas\/status\/2008047967295738151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> they were attempting \u201cto detain a felony suspect following a vehicle pursuit,\u201d on Sunday evening, January 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office said all lanes of Eastex Fwy (US 59) at Little York were shut down. The sheriff\u2019s office told people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Raymond Reddington filmed footage from his vehicle on the freeway of the heavily armed officer. \u201cMan he got a bazooka or what?\u201d he can be heard saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other footage posted to social media showed [police vehicles chasing a military-style vehicle(https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrizzysHoodNews\/videos\/1990672658164513) and later a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrizzysHoodNews\/videos\/854806197551311\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:standoff between SWAT and the suspect;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">standoff between SWAT and the suspect<\/a>. Credit: Raymond Reddington via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heavily armed SWAT officer was seen on a Houston freeway as authorities said they were attempting \u201cto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9360,49387,56,58,57,49386,9634],"class_list":["post-111164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-harris-county-sheriffs-office","tag-heavily-armed-swat-officer","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-raymond-reddington","tag-vehicle-pursuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111164","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=111164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}