{"id":397123,"date":"2026-08-04T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397123\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:50:13","slug":"armed-suspect-arrested-after-3-hour-long-standoff-with-police-in-amarillo-medical-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397123\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed suspect arrested after 3-hour long standoff with police in Amarillo medical district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The search for an armed suspect drew large law enforcement response, involving multiple SWAT teams,  Monday evening near SW 9th Avenue and Coulter Street in Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>ABC 7 News was alerted to the police activity shortly before 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers cleared people from several nearby parking lots, including the Vibra Rehabilitation Hospital of Amarillo and Panhandle Surgical Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A DPS trooper also ordered an ABC 7 News crew to leave the surgical hospital parking lot as officers secured the area.<\/p>\n<p>Officers talked about restricting access along SW 9th, although some traffic continued to travel through the area.<\/p>\n<p>After approximately three hours, they arrested Anthony Ramirez, 26, who was wanted for an intimidation charge.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez will also be charged with resisting arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The search for an armed suspect drew large law enforcement response, involving multiple SWAT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-397123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397123","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=397123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}