{"id":203902,"date":"2026-03-14T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/203902\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:32:11","slug":"man-robbed-woman-in-front-of-her-kid-at-north-austin-atm-apd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/203902\/","title":{"rendered":"Man robbed woman in front of her kid at North Austin ATM: APD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Austin police are looking for a man who robbed a woman in front of her child and friend at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/north-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">North Austin<\/a> ATM.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">APD says that the incident happened on March 8 around 4:40 p.m. at an ATM at 5775 Airport Boulevard, near E Koenig Lane.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The woman was using the ATM and as she walked away, a man approached and asked for money to buy drugs. When she refused, he aggressively pulled on her purse, causing &#8220;visible redness on her arm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The man grabbed her by the arms, attempting to push her against a wall while she and her child yelled for help. The man snatched items from her hands and fled when the child&#8217;s screams drew attention, says APD.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The suspect removed his jacket and tucked it under his arm to change his appearance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The woman sustained bruises on her arms from the encounter.<\/p>\n<p> Suspect description <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/airport-blvd-assault.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">  (Austin Police Department)<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The suspect is described as a Black male in his mid to late 40s, approximately 5&#8217;10&#8221; and about 160 lbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">He has short black hair and an unshaven black\/grey beard and was last seen in a blue jacket over a black vest with a white T-shirt underneath, black pants, and faded black or brown Nike sneakers.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Anyone with any information may submit a tip anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">going online<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">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 in this report comes from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/north-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Austin police are looking for a man who robbed a woman in front of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203903,"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-203902","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\/203902","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=203902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}