Authorities are investigating a threat involving the facility at 700 N. San Jacinto St. in downtown Houston.<\/p>\n
HOUSTON \u2014 The Harris County Joint Processing Center in downtown Houston is on lockdown Saturday night as authorities investigate a threat made against the facility, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
The facility is located at 700 N. San Jacinto St.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office confirmed the lockdown but did not provide details about the nature of the threat or how it was communicated.<\/p>\n
It is unclear how long the lockdown will remain in effect or whether operations at the facility have been affected.<\/p>\n
The Joint Processing Center is a shared operation between Harris County and the City of Houston that processes people who have been arrested and are entering the jail system.<\/p>\n
KHOU 11 has reached out to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office for additional information.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. We will update it as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n
Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at newstips@khou.com or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are investigating a threat involving the facility at 700 N. San Jacinto St. in downtown Houston. HOUSTON…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-462723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462723","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=462723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}