{"id":173179,"date":"2026-02-20T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:12:09","slug":"apd-looking-for-suspect-who-fled-after-encounter-with-police-earlier-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173179\/","title":{"rendered":"APD looking for suspect who fled after encounter with police earlier this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are searching for a man who they say evaded arrest after officers made contact with him earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Feb. 10, at around 10:15 p.m., APD says that officers found a parked Buick that did not match its installed license plates near the 6500 block of the South I-35 southbound service road.<\/p>\n<p>Officers made contact with the driver, APD says, but the driver ignored commands, turned the vehicle&#8217;s ignition on and left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was last seen going north on the I-35 service road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/bastrop-county-considers-naming-part-of-fm-969-the-charlie-kirk-corridor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Bastrop Co. Commissioners Court to consider naming part of FM 969 &#8216;Charlie Kirk Corridor&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police describe him as a white man between 35 and 45 years old with a gray goatee, short hair, and a tattoo on the inside of his right forearm.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect vehicle is a white Buick made between 2010 and 2015, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have information on the suspect or his whereabouts are asked to submit tips through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online <\/a>or at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p>APD is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are searching for a man who they say evaded arrest after officers made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-173179","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173179","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=173179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}