{"id":406713,"date":"2026-08-14T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406713\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:28:08","slug":"police-seek-man-accused-of-robbing-east-austin-business-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/406713\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek man accused of robbing East Austin business in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help identifying a man suspected of robbing a business in East Austin last month.<\/p>\n<p>The robbery occurred about 2:56 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, at 911 East Cesar Chavez St., according to the Austin Police Department. Police said an adult male robbed the business and fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/texas-rangers-probe-dps-troopers-fatal-shooting-of-stolen-fort-worth-ambulance-driver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Questions remain after stolen ambulance chase ends in fatal I-35 shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators with APD&#8217;s Robbery Unit believe the same suspect committed a theft at the same location 10 days before the robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a Black male, 20 to 30 years old, with an athletic build and short, black hair. Police said he was last seen wearing a black sleeveless shirt with a white and pink logo on the back, gray pants, red Nike Foamposite shoes and a gray and black backpack.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call APD&#8217;s Robbery Unit at 512-974-5092. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477. <\/p>\n<p>A reward of up to $1,000 may be offered for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help identifying a man suspected of robbing a business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-406713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406713","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=406713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}