{"id":409488,"date":"2026-08-18T04:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T04:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:44:27","slug":"austin-police-seek-suspect-in-stolen-vehicle-chase-foot-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409488\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin police seek suspect in stolen vehicle chase, foot pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are asking for the public&#8217;s help identifying a man who led officers on a pursuit in a stolen vehicle before abandoning the car and fleeing on foot last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department responded to a 911 call reporting a stolen vehicle in the 9300 block of South I-35 southbound service road at 8:20 a.m. Thursday, police said. Officers located the vehicle traveling westbound on West Slaughter Lane and attempted a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect sped away before abandoning the vehicle in the 9500 block of Bentley Garner Lane and running from the scene, police said. Officers set up a perimeter and used a K9 unit to search for the suspect but did not find him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/hays-county-sheriffs-office-dps-investigating-death-of-inmate-at-jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Hays County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, DPS investigating death of inmate at jail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police describe the suspect as a white or Hispanic man, 35 to 45 years old, with a thin build and a thin beard. He has a tattoo on the inside of his right forearm, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the APD Auto Theft Unit at (512) 974-5265 or ATIP@austintexas.gov. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Capital Area Crime Stoppers 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 available for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police are asking for the public&#8217;s help identifying a man who led officers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-409488","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\/409488","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=409488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}