AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Police Department’s Auto Theft Unit is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect involved in a vehicle theft that occurred on October 7, 2025.<\/p>\n
The incident took place at 4 p.m. in the 11100 block of N. IH-35 SVRD NB, where the victim left their vehicle running at a Valero gas station. The suspect, described as a Black male between 30-40 years of age with a heavy build and short black hair, approached the vehicle, checked for occupants, and drove off, according to a press release from the department. The vehicle was recovered on October 9, 2025.<\/p>\n
The suspect was last seen wearing a white shirt, tan shorts, and black slider shoes. Anyone with information is urged to contact the APD’s Auto Theft Unit at ATIP@austintexas.gov<\/a>. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477. A reward of up to $1,000 may be available for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Police Department’s Auto Theft Unit is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,430],"class_list":["post-150247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-news","tag-north-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150247","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=150247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}