{"id":212790,"date":"2026-03-20T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212790\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:15:33","slug":"apd-officer-injured-suspect-in-custody-after-police-pursuit-spans-austin-into-cedar-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212790\/","title":{"rendered":"APD officer injured, suspect in custody after police pursuit spans Austin into Cedar Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 An APD officer was injured, and a suspect is in custody, after a police pursuit early Friday morning stretched from south Austin all the way to Cedar Park.<\/p>\n<p>APD says the pursuit began around 2:30 a.m. Friday morning near the intersection of South First Street and Ben White Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/barricaded-subject-in-custody-after-travis-co-swat-standoff-roads-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Barricaded subject in custody after Travis Co. SWAT standoff; roads reopened<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pursuit headed west on Ben White Boulevard to Mopac, going north on Mopac into north Austin and then west on US 183 into Williamson County.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2:45 a.m., an officer involved in the pursuit collided with a construction vehicle on US 183 near the 10200 block of Research Boulevard, receiving minor injuries in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was taken to the hospital for their injuries, and is expected to be released. Police say the occupant of the construction vehicle was not injured in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit ended just north of the Cedar Park city limits when the suspect went off the road near South Block House Drive and Creek Run Drive.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and is suspected of drunk driving, police say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 An APD officer was injured, and a suspect is in custody, after a police pursuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-212790","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\/212790","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=212790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}