{"id":454931,"date":"2026-10-03T04:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454931\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T04:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:06:07","slug":"man-arrested-after-allegedly-threatening-ut-austin-local-church-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454931\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after allegedly threatening UT Austin, local church, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A 35-year-old Austin man has been arrested after allegedly making threats against the University of Texas at Austin and a local church, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department said David Benjamin Coleman-Roush was arrested around 1:15 a.m. Friday on a third-degree felony charge of terroristic threat.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman-Roush was arrested in connection with an investigation in the 5700 block of Tapadera Trace Lane and remains in custody at the Travis County Jail, according to APD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-police-arrest-4-in-drug-weapons-operation-near-barton-springs-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Austin police arrest 4 in drug, weapons operation near Barton Springs Pool<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Texas Police Department said Coleman-Roush has no affiliation with the university.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, UTPD Chief Shane Streepy said the man was reportedly experiencing a mental health crisis when he made threats against the campus and others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety of Longhorns is our highest priority,&#8221; Streepy said. &#8220;We are thankful to our partners at APD for their swift action to protect our Longhorn community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UTPD said it will continue monitoring the case and coordinating with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies on potential threats.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released additional details about the nature of the alleged threats or identified the church that was reportedly targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A 35-year-old Austin man has been arrested after allegedly making threats against the University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-454931","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\/454931","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=454931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}