{"id":340449,"date":"2026-06-17T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340449\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:50:10","slug":"east-austin-crime-2-suspects-accused-of-stealing-metal-from-job-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340449\/","title":{"rendered":"East Austin crime: 2 suspects accused of stealing metal from job site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AUSTIN, Texas – Police are asking for help identifying two suspects accused of stealing metal from a construction job site in East Austin.<\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/p>\n

Police said on May 20, around 10:45 p.m., two suspects were seen trespassing on camera onto a construction job site at 1125 Shady Lane.<\/p>\n

While on the property, they were seen using a crowbar to break and enter into locked apartment units that were under construction.<\/p>\n

The next day, workers found the units broken into, and two unit breakers were stolen from hot, live permanent power electrical panels. A total of 26 breakers, 13 breakers per unit, were stolen with a total estimated cost of $10,000.<\/p>\n

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The suspects were described as white or Hispanic men in their 20s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One suspect was wearing dark shorts, black gloves, flip-flops, a zipped-up light-colored hoodie, baklava, and holding a dark bag or fabric object.<\/p>\n

Another suspect was wearing a white hoodie sweatshirt with an image on the front, dark rimmed glasses, white face covered up to his nose, black shoes and light-colored cargo or tactical pants.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact the APD Commercial Burglary and Metal Theft Unit at (512) 974-6941<\/a> or APDCommercialBurglary@austintexas.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Source: Information from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>East Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – Police are asking for help identifying two suspects accused of stealing metal from a construction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,2924,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-340449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-east-austin","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340449","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=340449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}