{"id":160764,"date":"2026-02-02T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160764\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:49:10","slug":"driver-ends-up-in-ocean-after-huntington-beach-chase-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160764\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver ends up in ocean after Huntington Beach chase \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police went to the ends of the Earth &#8212; or, at least the end of the beach &#8212; to take a driver into custody after a brief chase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/huntington-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chase began at about 10 p.m. Sunday when an officer tried to pull over a driver for a traffic violation, then learned the car was stolen. The chased ended up on Pacific Coast Highway, where officers deployed spike strips that damaged the car&#8217;s tires.<\/p>\n<p>After a PIT maneuver, a passenger was taken into custody, but the driver ran toward the beach and into the ocean. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1547818150036467\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Video from the police department&#8217;s helicopter<\/a> captured the unusual pursuit as the damp driver was taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police went to the ends of the Earth &#8212; or, at least the end of the beach &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4247,588,48,52,51,47,50,49,4248],"class_list":{"0":"post-160764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-car-chase","9":"tag-huntington-beach","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-police-pursuit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}