{"id":371458,"date":"2026-07-13T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371458\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:16:08","slug":"texas-dps-probes-reports-of-police-impersonator-pulling-over-drivers-on-us-190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371458\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DPS probes reports of police impersonator pulling over drivers on US-190"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators fear multiple drivers may have been stopped by man posing as law enforcement <\/p>\n<p>photo of suspect vehicle, black Jeep Gladiator (Texas DPS,  KPRC-TV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating reports of a police impersonator believed to have conducted traffic stops in Walker, San Jacinto and Polk counties, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The suspect is accused of pulling over motorists while driving an unmarked black 2022 Jeep Gladiator on U.S. 190, DPS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Anyone who was stopped by a white male in civilian clothing driving a black Jeep Gladiator is asked to contact the Conroe DPS Criminal Investigations Division at (346) 260-9824 or email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/13\/texas-dps-probes-reports-of-police-impersonator-pulling-over-drivers-on-us-190\/mailto:Luke.Williams@dps.texas.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke.Williams@dps.texas.gov<\/a> with information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators fear multiple drivers may have been stopped by man posing as law enforcement photo of suspect vehicle,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131579,6215,72887,27,29,28,48987],"class_list":["post-371458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-impersonator","tag-polk-county","tag-san-jacinto-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-walker-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371458","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=371458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}