{"id":332005,"date":"2026-05-25T20:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332005\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:27:14","slug":"california-man-dies-during-memorial-day-donner-lake-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332005\/","title":{"rendered":"California man dies during Memorial Day Donner Lake swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779419116_SAC20generic20police20still20chyron20frame.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"Police tape at crime scene\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 36-year-old man trying to swim in Donner Lake Sunday afternoon drowned after he was unable to get back to his boat, according to the Truckee Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Carlos Garcia-Guitierrez of Lancaster had been in a pontoon boat on the lake before jumping into the water for a swim. Police said wind pushed the boat away from Garcia-Guitierrez after he entered the lake, which is in Truckee. He struggled to keep his head above water while he tried to get back to the boat.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear if he was with anyone else while on the lake and police said he was not wearing a life jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel were called to the lake around 4:40 p.m. Sunday and the lake\u2019s public boat ramp was closed during their search, which continued into the evening. Truckee police found Garcia-Guitierrez more than 100 feet underwater using a remote control vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The lake\u2019s boat launch was later reopened.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/263094893\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20220812_LS_Stephen_Hobbs_016a.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Stephen Hobbs\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/263094893\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Hobbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Stephen Hobbs is an enterprise reporter for The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Capitol Bureau. He has worked for newspapers in Colorado, Florida and South Carolina.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old man trying to swim in Donner Lake Sunday afternoon drowned after he was unable to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-332005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332005","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=332005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}