{"id":409088,"date":"2026-08-17T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:52:41","slug":"detainee-escapes-custody-at-north-austin-hospital-later-found-on-capmetro-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409088\/","title":{"rendered":"Detainee escapes custody at North Austin hospital, later found on CapMetro bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A detainee escaped from law enforcement custody at a North Austin hospital Monday morning before being located on a CapMetro bus and taken back into custody, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>APD officers were monitoring the individual in custody at St. David&#8217;s North Austin Medical Center, in the 12221 block of North MoPac Expressway southbound service road, when the person escaped at 7:47 a.m., police said. Officers established a perimeter around the hospital and conducted an extensive search of the surrounding area with assistance from other APD resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-police-seek-suspect-in-stolen-vehicle-chase-foot-pursuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Austin police seek suspect in stolen vehicle chase, foot pursuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later that morning, officers received information that the individual was on a CapMetro bus. Officers located the person and took them back into custody, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The individual sustained a minor injury during the escape and was transported to a local hospital for evaluation, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Austin has reached out to St. David&#8217;s North Austin Medical Center for comment and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A detainee escaped from law enforcement custody at a North Austin hospital Monday morning before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-409088","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\/409088","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=409088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}