{"id":72204,"date":"2025-11-27T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72204\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:02:43","slug":"search-ongoing-for-19-year-old-man-who-jumped-from-bridge-to-lbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72204\/","title":{"rendered":"Search ongoing for 19-year-old man who jumped from bridge to LBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4IO36CU5YVBRPLUDA5REESTZQU\">Rescuers Wednesday morning are searching for a man who authorities believe may have jumped off the Route 72 bridge to Long Beach Island Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"URA44KBTFZBTNCKWWXQNVHN62Q\">A witness told police a person leaped from the Dorland J. Henderson Memorial Bridge, which travels over Manahawkin Bay and connects Stafford to Ship Bottom on Long Beach Island. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"55OLFPQKPJABFHW54TFAC5O2PU\">Stafford police officers found an unoccupied gray Toyota Camry at the top of the steel girder bridge. The vehicle is registered to a 19-year-old from Monmouth County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VAQZHGUFARCGDEH43UJ2YHOV2M\">Helicopters, boats and drones were at the scene Wednesday searching for the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LTTJWFFVSJBB3ODO62JROCGHM4\">Police request that personal drones not be operated, because they will interfere with the aircraft conducting the search. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3E6UJRXIDZGJ5O6TJXUJDH5FD4\">The U.S. Coast Guard and State Police are assisting with the search. Police, firefighters and emergency service workers from Stafford, Ship Bottom and Barnegat are also involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers Wednesday morning are searching for a man who authorities believe may have jumped off the Route 72&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-72204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72204","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=72204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}