{"id":386667,"date":"2026-07-25T23:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386667\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:48:16","slug":"five-below-employee-arrested-after-armed-standoff-in-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386667\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Below employee arrested after armed standoff in Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Five Below employee in Richmond was arrested Saturday morning after attempting to hit multiple people with his vehicle and then barricading himself inside the store while armed, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Bend County Sheriff\u2019s Office says it was called just after midnight Saturday to the Five Belong along the Grand Parkway, where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jailinq.fortbendcountytx.gov\/Inmate\/View_Inmate?VarJailID=P00267349\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ramsey Jones, 33,<\/a> had allegedly tried to strike individuals with his car and then holed himself up in the store.<\/p>\n<p>After hours in a standoff with a SWAT team negotiators at the scene, Jones was arrested,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/crime\/grand-parkway-swat-standoff-5-five-below-richmond\/285-4c087818-244a-4e9f-b452-d315ad321576\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officials told\u00a0KHOU 11.<\/a> The sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement that Jones surrendered and was taken into custody \u201cwithout incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones was arrested and charged with five counts of aggravated assault on a public servant, though the sheriff&#8217;s office did not elaborate. He also had two outstanding warrants for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Five Below employee in Richmond was arrested Saturday morning after attempting to hit multiple people with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-386667","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\/386667","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=386667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}