{"id":16216,"date":"2025-10-22T19:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16216\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:56:17","slug":"austin-man-arrested-for-murder-in-connection-to-fentanyl-overdose-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16216\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin man arrested for murder in connection to fentanyl overdose death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/michael-woodruff.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">LEANDER, Texas &#8211; An Austin man was arrested for murder in connection to a fentanyl overdose death in Leander.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Leander police said on Oct. 20, Michael Woodruff, of Austin, was arrested for murder \u2014 delivery of a controlled substance. The arrest stems from a fentanyl overdose death that happened back in April.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">During his arrest, he also had fentanyl and cocaine on him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He was taken to the Williamson County Jail.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This is an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Leander Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/williamson-county\/leander\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leander<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LEANDER, Texas &#8211; An Austin man was arrested for murder in connection to a fentanyl overdose death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,11283,223,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-16216","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-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216","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=16216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}