{"id":162138,"date":"2026-02-12T21:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162138\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:08:06","slug":"man-steals-packages-from-multiple-homes-in-broad-daylight-apd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162138\/","title":{"rendered":"Man steals packages from multiple homes in broad daylight: APD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Austin police are looking for a man connected to multiple mail theft cases in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/east-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">east Austin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">APD says in every case, the suspect, wearing a glow vest and looking down at his phone, walked up the front door of a home in broad daylight, then picked up a package and left.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">He appeared to be driving a black SUV, potentially a Chevrolet Equinox.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">One of the thefts was reported on Dec. 27 around 10:10 a.m. in the 7800 block of Saddle Up Drive, in a neighborhood off Decker Lane near the Travis County Expo Center.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The suspect is described as a Middle Eastern man between 30 and 50 years old, approximately 150 lbs and between 5&#8217;4&#8243; and 5&#8217;6&#8243;. He was last seen wearing rectangular glasses with black rims, a black T-shirt, black athletic shorts, black slide sandals, and a green North Texas hat worn backwards.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">His vehicle is described as a Chevrolet Equinox between model years 2018 and 2022 with dark rims and tint.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0  (Austin Police Department)<\/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=\"\">Anyone with any information may submit a tip anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">going online<\/a> or calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/east-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Austin police are looking for a man connected to multiple mail theft cases in east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,2924,223,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-162138","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-east-austin","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162138","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=162138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}