{"id":453019,"date":"2026-10-01T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453019\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:06:15","slug":"dps-arrests-man-for-threatening-violent-attack-on-texas-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453019\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS arrests man for threatening &#8216;violent attack&#8217; on Texas Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested a Bexar County man Wednesday in connection with the threat\u00a0of a \u201cviolent attack\u201d on the Texas Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>DPS special agents worked alongside the FBI and local law enforcement to arrest 40-year-old Benny Caldera Jr. around 3 a.m. at his home in Converse.\u00a0Caldera was charged with felony terroristic threat against a public servant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from DPS, the agency received \u201ccredible information\u201d about the threat\u00a0\u2014 planned for Oct. 1\u00a0\u2014 on Tuesday and \u201cworked through the night\u201d to arrest Caldera.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested a Bexar County man Wednesday in connection with the threat\u00a0of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-453019","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\/453019","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=453019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}