{"id":178254,"date":"2026-02-24T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178254\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:16:08","slug":"police-look-for-suspect-who-caused-4k-in-damages-in-home-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178254\/","title":{"rendered":"Police look for suspect who caused $4K in damages in home under construction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Austin Police Department is asking the public for help identifying a suspect in connection to a criminal mischief incident.<\/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 the incident happened on Dec. 17, 2025 at 513 W. Odell Street at around 1:12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The suspect entered a construction site by squeezing through a gate and entered a house that was under construction.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police say the suspect caused more than $4,000 in dmages to the home&#8217;s electrical wires by cutting and ripping out multiple lines.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wire-theft-suspect.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The identity of the suspect is not known, but the suspect is described as follows:<\/p>\n<p> Hispanic male5\u20196&#8243; tall200 lbsBlack hair and trimmed beardHe was last seen wearing a black shirt, black pants, and gray\/black Vans sneakers <\/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 visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">A reward of up to $1,000 may be available for any information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/north-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Austin<\/a><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> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Austin Police Department is asking the public for help identifying a suspect in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,1466,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-178254","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-news","13":"tag-north-austin","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178254","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=178254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}