{"id":202699,"date":"2026-03-13T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/202699\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:47:20","slug":"motorcyclist-arrested-after-fleeing-lakeway-traffic-stop-hiding-in-wooded-ravine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/202699\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist arrested after fleeing Lakeway traffic stop, hiding in wooded ravine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAKEWAY, Texas \u2014  An Austin man was arrested Monday after fleeing from Lakeway police officers on a motorcycle and hiding in a wooded ravine, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>John Gray, 37, was located and taken into custody in the 5300 block of Lipan Apache Bend following an extensive search, according to the Lakeway Police Department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/hays-county-jury-sentences-man-to-25-years-in-prison-for-shooting-his-wife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Hays County jury sentences man to 25 years in prison for shooting his wife<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers tried to conduct a traffic stop on Gray&#8217;s motorcycle near Bee Creek Road and State Highway 71 when he fled on foot into a heavily wooded, steep ravine. <\/p>\n<p>During the search, officers received information suggesting Gray had been injured while attempting to escape. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment following his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Gray was already wanted on two outstanding warrants. One warrant was for evading arrest and detention as a probation violation out of Travis County, and a second was for evading arrest with previous convictions out of Hays County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKEWAY, Texas \u2014 An Austin man was arrested Monday after fleeing from Lakeway police officers on a motorcycle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-202699","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\/202699","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=202699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}