{"id":143332,"date":"2026-01-29T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143332\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:59:22","slug":"leander-police-asking-for-help-locating-missing-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143332\/","title":{"rendered":"Leander Police asking for help locating missing teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/lancestevens.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">LEANDER, Texas &#8211; The Leander Police Department is asking the public for help locating a teen.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Leander PD says 17-year-old Lance Stevens was last seen on Jan. 22 at around 8 a.m. at Leander High School.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police believe Stevens left voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Stevens is described as follows:<\/p>\n<p> 6&#8217;1&#8243; tallAbout 150 poundsLast seen wearing an olive green Under Armour shit, dark pants and Nike open-toed shoes <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">If you have any information regarding Lance\u2019s current whereabouts, please contact the Leander Police Department at 512\u2011528\u20112800.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Det. Welborn is the investigator assigned to this case (26\u20110162).<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Leander Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/williamson-county\/leander\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leander<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LEANDER, Texas &#8211; The Leander Police Department is asking the public for help locating a teen. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,11283,2474,223,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-143332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-leander","13":"tag-missing-persons","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143332","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=143332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}