{"id":352909,"date":"2026-06-27T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352909\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:29:17","slug":"dps-says-license-plate-readers-helped-find-abducted-children-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352909\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS says license plate readers helped find abducted children in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON \u2014 Two missing children were found safe at a Houston-area apartment complex Thursday after Texas Department of Public Safety agents used automated license plate reader technology to track a suspect vehicle, officials say.<\/p>\n

A 15-year-old and 1-year-old victim<\/a> were recovered by DPS Criminal Investigations Division agents after a days-long search that began Monday, in Converse, a city in Bexar County.<\/p>\n


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The investigation started when the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services asked DPS to assist with a missing persons case involving the two children. Agents requested a statewide AMBER Alert, which officials say generated thousands of tips and helped accelerate the investigation.<\/p>\n

Using data from Automated License Plate Readers, agents traced a suspect vehicle that had traveled from Converse to an apartment complex in the Houston area. DPS agents in San Antonio coordinated with their counterparts in Houston to respond to the location, where both children were found safe Thursday.<\/p>\n

DPS said the investigation is ongoing and no further details are available at this time. DPS thanked the public for responding to the emergency alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Two missing children were found safe at a Houston-area apartment complex Thursday after Texas Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-352909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352909","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=352909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}