{"id":129513,"date":"2026-01-19T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129513\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:40:08","slug":"houston-police-officer-accused-of-racing-at-130-mph-with-child-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129513\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police officer accused of racing at 130+ mph with child in car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gumataotao-giovoinni03272000.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Giovoinni-Quin Gumataotao <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston police officer is facing charges for allegedly racing with a child in his car.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Court records show Giovoinni-Quinn Gumataotao, 25, is charged with racing on a highway and endangering a child.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He has been released from jail on bond, which was set at a total of $11,000.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to charging documents, Gumataotao was arrested Thursday for allegedly participating in a drag race \u2013 reaching speeds over 130 mph.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He allegedly had an 8-year-old child in his car at the time.<\/p>\n<p> Officer relieved of duty pending investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Houston Police Department confirms Gumataotao was assigned to the Westside Patrol Division and had been with the department for two years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HPD says Gumataotao was relieved of duty pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from court documents obtained by FOX 26 and the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><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\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Giovoinni-Quin Gumataotao HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston police officer is facing charges for allegedly racing with a child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-129513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129513","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=129513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}