{"id":452511,"date":"2026-09-30T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452511\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:06:08","slug":"texas-dps-finds-credible-threat-to-attack-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452511\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DPS finds \u2018credible\u2019 threat to attack Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety found a \u201ccredible\u201d threat to attack the Capitol on Thursday, according to a memo sent to members of the Texas Senate and confirmed to KUT News by state Sen. Paul Bettencourt.<\/p>\n<p>The threat was initiated by one main suspect and several co-conspirators, according to the memo. DPS officials said they worked with the FBI and local law enforcement to arrest the main suspect around 3 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don&#8217;t know anything about motive, who, what, when, where, yet,\u201d Bettencourt said. \u201cLiterally, just within a few hours of the tip they had the potential perpetrator in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DPS said its investigation into the threat is ongoing and that it will continue to have an increased presence at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story<\/p>\n<p>KUT&#8217;s Neena Satija contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Department of Public Safety found a \u201ccredible\u201d threat to attack the Capitol on Thursday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[155563,3646,27,5601,6877,29,28],"class_list":["post-452511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-capitol-attack","tag-fbi","tag-texas","tag-texas-capitol","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452511","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=452511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}