{"id":278691,"date":"2026-05-04T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278691\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:21:20","slug":"teen-charged-with-aggravated-assault-after-overnight-police-chase-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278691\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged with aggravated assault after overnight police chase Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Investigators say a teen has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault after a police chase in south Lubbock early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police identified the driver of the vehicle as 17-year-old Xavier Alaniz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just after midnight officer\u2019s attempted to pull over a vehicle near 82nd Street and Frankford Avenue. However, Alaniz did not stop initiating a pursuit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alaniz is accused of speeding off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The chase ended when Alaniz lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a light pole near 114th Street and Frankford. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Four people were injured after a driver led Lubbock police on a chase and crashed into a light...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777929680_253_BINEL5HEBNFAPOQKPF2APXU2WU.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Four people were injured after a driver led Lubbock police on a chase and crashed into a light pole.(Christian Guzman-Diaz | Christian Guzman-Diaz)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alaniz suffered minor injuries. The front seat passenger also suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two passengers in the backseat suffered moderate injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Investigators say a teen has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12036,268,45179,168,170,169,523,1819],"class_list":["post-278691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-chase","tag-crash","tag-frankford","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police","tag-pursuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278691","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=278691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}