{"id":340140,"date":"2026-06-17T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340140\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:27:08","slug":"break-in-at-east-austin-construction-site-leads-to-electrical-breaker-theft-worth-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340140\/","title":{"rendered":"Break-in at east Austin construction site leads to electrical breaker theft worth $10K"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are looking for two suspects who stole $10,000 worth of breakers from electrical panels on a construction site in east Austin.<\/p>\n

APD says the incident occurred around 10:45 p.m. on May 20 near 1125 Shady Lane. <\/p>\n

Security camera footage shows two male suspects trespassing into the job site. Police say they can be seen breaking into locked, under-construction apartment units using a crowbar.<\/p>\n

Workers the next day found that two unit breakers were stolen from hot, live permanent power electrical panels.<\/p>\n

Police say a total of 26 breakers were stolen from two units at a total estimated cost of $10,000.<\/p>\n

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The suspects are described as two white or Hispanic males in their 20s. <\/p>\n

One can be seen wearing dark shorts, block gloves, flip flops, a zip-up light-colored hoodie, a balaclava, and holding dark bag or fabric object.<\/p>\n

The other suspect has brown hair and can be seen wearing a white hoodie sweatshirt with an image on the front, dark-rimmed glasses, a white face cover up to his nose, black shoes, and light-colored cargo or tactical pants.<\/p>\n

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Those who may have information on these suspects’ whereabouts, or on the incident, are asked to contact APD’s Commercial Burglary and Metal Theft Unit at 512-974-6941.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are looking for two suspects who stole $10,000 worth of breakers from electrical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-340140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340140","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=340140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}