{"id":262880,"date":"2026-04-23T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262880\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:34:07","slug":"two-houston-men-arrested-for-return-fraud-retail-theft-in-kyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262880\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Houston men arrested for return fraud retail theft in Kyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYLE, Texas \u2014 Two men from Houston were arrested by Kyle police last Thursday in connection to multiple retail fraud cases.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Christopher and Troy Conway, both 32, are accused of using a serial number switching scheme to commit return fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Police have linked the two men with to multiple cases spanning from Austin to the San Antonio area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-in-se-austin-04-23-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Police investigating homicide in SE Austin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kyle PD says that the investigation is ongoing, with detectives working to determine the full scope and financial impact of the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Those who may have additional information are asked to contact Detective Struble with Kyle PD at cstruble@cityofkyle.com.<\/p>\n<p>Tips may also be submitted anonymously through the Hays County Crime Stoppers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.callcrimestoppers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online <\/a>or at 1-800-324-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYLE, Texas \u2014 Two men from Houston were arrested by Kyle police last Thursday in connection to multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-262880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262880","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=262880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}