{"id":430211,"date":"2026-09-09T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430211\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:48:08","slug":"el-paso-man-indicted-accused-of-trying-to-run-over-a-bike-cop-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430211\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso man indicted; accused of trying to run over a bike cop during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A grand jury has indicted a man accused of trying to run over a police officer in Downtown El Paso during a traffic stop back in April.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, 31-year-old Jacob Wayne Williams has been indicted after he allegedly almost hit an El Paso Police Department officer who was on a bike with his car when they were trying to pull him over.<\/p>\n<p>This happened on April 17, at around 8: 30 p.m. at the 300 block of W. San Antonio Avenue, near the El Paso Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is being charged with aggravated assault on a public servant and two counts of evading arrest\/detention with a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-suspect-accused-of-nearly-striking-officer-flees-traffic-stop-police-say?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso suspect accused of nearly striking officer flees traffic stop, police say <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said Williams allegedly fled by driving onto a sidewalk and then accelerating and running a stop sign to get away. <\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was later found abandoned near a home in Sunset Heights. <\/p>\n<p>Williams was arrested days later by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A grand jury has indicted a man accused of trying to run over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-430211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430211","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=430211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}