{"id":160818,"date":"2026-02-12T01:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/160818\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:38:08","slug":"texas-dps-warns-fake-memo-falsely-claims-10-day-el-paso-highway-closures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/160818\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DPS warns fake memo falsely claims 10-day El Paso highway closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Drivers in the El Paso area are being warned about a fake memo circulating online and through some media outlets that falsely claims temporary 10-day road closures are planned.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety stated that the memo is not legitimate and emphasized that it is not closing major highways or any roads in or out of the area over the next 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said it is unclear where the memo originated and that no additional information is currently available.<\/p>\n<p>DPS reminded the public that official communications will be issued by the DPS Media and Communications Office, designated public information officers, and on official DPS social media channels.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-water-repairs-wastewater-line-with-road-closure-at-sunset?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Water repairs wastewater system, causing road closure at Sunset<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Drivers in the El Paso area are being warned about a fake memo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-160818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160818","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=160818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}