{"id":197008,"date":"2026-03-18T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197008\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:26:07","slug":"florida-police-use-paddle-boards-to-rescue-sykesville-man-who-fled-jumped-into-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197008\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida police use paddle boards to rescue Sykesville man who fled, jumped into river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WBFF) \u2014 As Florida law enforcement began reading Chase Cruz&#8217;s Miranda Rights on Monday evening, body-worn camera footage captured the moment the Sykesville man ran away and subsequently jump into the Halifax River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/reel\/1335339178411545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Volusia Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> deputies and Daytona Beach Shores police officers hopped on paddle boards and rescued the 28-year-old on March 16, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/local\/juvenile-arrested-stabbing-fight-perry-hall-high-school-students-baltimore-county-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Juvenile arrested for stabbing incident near Perry Hall High School<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cruz was brought to shore where he was charged with loitering or prowling and obstructing an officer without violence, according to online court records. Both charges are misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>He made his first appearance in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz has a jail arraignment scheduled for Friday at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the body-worn camera footage below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WBFF) \u2014 As Florida law enforcement began reading Chase Cruz&#8217;s Miranda Rights on Monday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-197008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}