{"id":413484,"date":"2026-08-22T03:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413484\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:04:12","slug":"houston-police-officers-commandeer-uber-vehicle-during-pursuit-of-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413484\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police officers commandeer Uber vehicle during pursuit of suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/66swkb0z0o30euin.jpg\" alt=\"Caught on Camera: HPD officers commandeer Uber vehicle during suspect chase\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/66swkb0z0o30euin.jpg\" alt=\"Caught on Camera: HPD officers commandeer Uber vehicle during suspect chase\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-39f6236e=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston-area Uber driver has quite the story to tell following an incident earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Uber driver&#8217;s vehicle commandeered by Houston police during pursuit of suspect <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The video showed an Uber driver, by the name of Anthony Baines, showed a suspect running in front of his vehicle and two officers chasing behind the suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">One of the officers jumped into Baines&#8217; vehicle and told him to go after the suspect, saying, &#8220;Go, go, go, go!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b993be58=\"\"\/>      <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to Houston police, it all began when authorities responded to a terroristic threat call on Seventh Street back on August 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities said a woman was at the pool with her kids when the suspect came out of an apartment and they got into a fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">At one point, officials said, he is accused of threatening to shoot them, so the woman called authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers later arrived and while taking her statement, the suspect walked out of the apartment. That&#8217;s when, officers attempted to detain the suspect. However, the suspect got out of the officer&#8217;s grasp and took off on foot, beginning a pursuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston police said at one point, an officer got into a citizen&#8217;s car and the driver took the officers around the block to the apartment complex where the officers got into their own car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The officers then began their search for the suspect again. However, authorities said the suspect wasn&#8217;t apprehended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials did not identify who the suspect was.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation into the incident is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Anthony Baines, Houston Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston-area Uber driver has quite the story to tell following an incident earlier this month.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-413484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413484","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=413484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}