{"id":191277,"date":"2026-02-24T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191277\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:26:15","slug":"no-car-in-delta-search-for-vehicle-spotted-in-sacramento-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191277\/","title":{"rendered":"No car in Delta search for vehicle spotted in Sacramento River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Missing person incident depicts emergency personnel in boat on water\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Authorities, including Sacramento County sheriff\u2019s divers, searched Monday for a car reported in the water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Walnut Grove but did not find the vehicle, California Highway Patrol officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Callers first reported the car in the water near Twin Cities and River roads about 5:45 a.m., according to dispatches from the CHP\u2019s South Sacramento office. The report prompted CHP officers, U.S. Coast Guard personnel and sheriff\u2019s deputies to respond to the scene, 20 miles south of downtown Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard personnel reportedly spotted what was believed to be the vehicle about 7:20 a.m., according to CHP dispatch logs.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent searches by sheriff\u2019s divers continued into Monday afternoon, CHP officials said Monday evening. The divers failed to find a vehicle that matched the description of the one that went into the water, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174875\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771928775_170_SAC_Smith_Darrell_Author_Mug (1).JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Darrell Smith\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174875\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darrell Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Darrell Smith is a local reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities, including Sacramento County sheriff\u2019s divers, searched Monday for a car reported in the water in the Sacramento-San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[89705,852,29030,89706,121,123,122,4983,1089],"class_list":{"0":"post-191277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-car-in-water","9":"tag-chp","10":"tag-delta","11":"tag-divers","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-sacramento-river","16":"tag-search"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191277","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=191277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}