{"id":117875,"date":"2026-01-10T06:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117875\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:25:28","slug":"man-on-roof-of-houston-area-chick-fil-a-prompts-swat-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117875\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on roof of Houston-area Chick-fil-A prompts SWAT response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8syzrygj6mxefaa2.jpg\" alt=\"Man on roof of Houston-area Chick-fil-A prompts SWAT response\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">An intoxicated man prompted a SWAT response and evacuation after climbing onto the roof of a Houston-area Chick-fil-A on Friday morning, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The incident unfolded around 9 a.m. at the restaurant along the Katy Freeway near Greenhouse Road when constable deputies encountered a man they believed to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">They alerted the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office, who responded to the scene with a crisis intervention team.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The man, who deputies say had a box blade, ended up getting onto the roof of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The sheriff\u2019s office said the restaurant was evacuated, and SWAT responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">While he was on the roof, authorities say the man started throwing his clothes down to the ground.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">SWAT was able to take the man into custody. He was taken to the hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The sheriff\u2019s office says the man was found to have an open felony warrant out of Galveston County for possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The sheriff\u2019s office says the man is now facing criminal mischief charges.<\/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 man\u2019s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intoxicated man prompted a SWAT response and evacuation after climbing onto the roof of a Houston-area Chick-fil-A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-117875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-harris-county","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117875","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=117875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}