{"id":453403,"date":"2026-10-01T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453403\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:54:20","slug":"man-allegedly-threatens-employee-steals-merchandise-in-north-austin-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453403\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly threatens employee, steals merchandise in North Austin robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are searching for a man who allegedly threatened a store employee and stole merchandise in North Austin last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department said the robbery happened at 10:34 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 17 at a business in the 9700 block of North Capital of Texas Highway. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/blue-alert-issued-for-man-accused-of-shooting-harris-county-deputy-fleeing-in-patrol-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Man accused of shooting Harris County deputy arrested after hiding in backyard shed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Austin police said the suspect is a white man in his 30s to 40s with a medium build, balding with brown hair on the sides and tattoos on his left forearm. He was last seen wearing a blue shirt, dark-colored shorts, black long socks, white shoes and carrying a black North Face backpack.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking anyone with information about the man\u2019s identity or location to contact the Austin Police Robbery Unit at 512-974-5092. Tips can be submitted anonymously to the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/Police are searching for help finding a man suspected of threatening a store employee and stealing merchandise in North Austin. The Austin Police Department said the robbery happened at 10:34 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 17 at a business in the 9700 block of North Capital of Texas Highway Southbound. During the theft, a man threatened an employee before leaving with items from the store. Austin police said the suspect is a white man in his 30s to 40s with a medium build, balding with brown hair on the sides and tattoos on his left forearm. He was last seen wearing a blue shirt, dark-colored shorts, black long socks, white shoes and carrying a black North Face backpack. Detectives are asking anyone with information about the man\u2019s identity or location to contact the Austin Police Robbery Unit at 512-974-5092. Tips can be submitted anonymously to the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at austincrimestoppers.org or by calling 512-472-8477.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are searching for a man who allegedly threatened a store employee and stole merchandise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-453403","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\/453403","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=453403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}