{"id":17570,"date":"2025-10-23T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17570\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:46:20","slug":"harris-county-chase-ends-in-lake-crash-near-us-290-in-waller-county-search-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17570\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris County chase ends in lake crash near US-290 in Waller County; search underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/27712691AFE9F1AE631AC555D4B0F1D4.jpg\" alt=\"Harris County chase ends in lake: FULL UPDATE\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HEMPSTEAD, Texas &#8211; A chase involving Harris County deputies and a suspect in a reportedly stolen vehicle came to an end after the vehicle crashed into a body of water.<\/p>\n<p>   Vehicle crashed into lake after chase <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Sheriff Ed Gonzalez reports the chase began after deputies were called about a stolen vehicle which failed to stop at Barker Cypress and US-290.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The chase led deputies to Waller County and members of the Waller County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deployed spikes to stop the vehicle. Officials say the vehicle went off the 290 main lanes and into a lake near James Muse Parkway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Assistant Chief John Nanny reports it is not clear if the driver intentionally drove off the road or not. Authorities believe the driver has evaded capture at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to Sheriff Gonzalez, the vehicle sunk into the water and whoever was inside did not appear to have made it out.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Authorities are searching the area and the HCSO Dive Team was called to assist.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At this time, the James Muse Parkway exit at 290 is closed.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It is not clear how many occupants were inside the vehicle at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article has been provided by Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/waller-county\/hempstead\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hempstead<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/waller-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waller County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HEMPSTEAD, Texas &#8211; A chase involving Harris County deputies and a suspect in a reportedly stolen vehicle came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,13670,56,58,57,223,216,393,10013],"class_list":{"0":"post-17570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-hempstead","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-waller-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570","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=17570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}