{"id":181521,"date":"2026-02-26T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181521\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:00:06","slug":"austin-police-seek-publics-help-in-identifying-auto-theft-suspect-north-texas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181521\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police seek publics help in identifying auto theft suspect | North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Police Department is seeking assistance from the public to identify a suspect involved in an auto theft incident that occurred early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on February 4, 2026, at approximately 4:53 a.m. at the Mr. Detail car wash located at 1803 Rutland Drive. According to a press release from the Austin Police Department, the suspect entered the car wash on a bicycle and left in a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a Hispanic male with a mustache, long sideburns, and a possible goatee. He was last seen wearing a long Nike t-shirt, sweatpants, a baseball cap, tennis shoes, and a jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident or the identity of the suspect is urged to contact the APD Auto Theft Unit at (512) 974-5265 or via email at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mytexasdaily.com\/north-texas\/austin-police-seek-publics-help-in-identifying-auto-theft-suspect\/mailto:ATIP@austintexas.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATIP@austintexas.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Police Department is seeking assistance from the public to identify a suspect involved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-181521","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-north-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181521","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=181521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}