{"id":111290,"date":"2026-01-05T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111290\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:37:10","slug":"houston-police-car-catches-fire-after-crash-involving-robbery-suspect-in-greenspoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111290\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police car catches fire after crash involving robbery suspect in Greenspoint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Two Houston police officers were injured after a major crash involving a possible robbery suspect in the Greenspoint area on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p> Crash involving two HPD vehicles\u00a0   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Sergeant David Rose with the Houston Police Department Vehicular Crimes Division reports the incident that began as a chase came to an end at the intersection of Ella Boulevard and Rushcreek Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A male suspect is believed to have stolen a vehicle at gunpoint and led South East patrol units and other agencies on a chase into the area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to Sgt. Rose, one vehicle crashed into the back of a patrol car causing a small fire. Officials were able to quickly put the fire out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The suspect was arrested, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers involved in the crash refused treatment for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The identity of the suspect and what charges he might face are unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">It is unclear where the suspect vehicle theft happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by Sergeant David Rose with the Houston Police Department Vehicular Crimes Division.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/greenspoint\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greenspoint<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Two Houston police officers were injured after a major crash involving a possible robbery suspect in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,9167,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-111290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-greenspoint","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111290","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=111290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}