{"id":199092,"date":"2026-03-20T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199092\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:28:07","slug":"florida-cops-jump-on-paddleboards-for-wild-police-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199092\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida cops jump on paddleboards for wild police chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get the paddle wagon.<\/p>\n<p>Wild video shows two Florida police officers jumping on paddleboards to chase a suspect who jumped in a river to escape arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A Volusia County deputy and Daytona Beach Shores cop were reading Chase Cruz, 28,\u00a0his Miranda rights on Monday when he suddenly raced off toward the Halifax River, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got one running,\u201d the cop yells in his radio as he gives chase.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Cruz, 28, was arrested by police on paddle boards in Florida. Volusia Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>An aerial video then shows the two law enforcement officers on boards paddling towards Cruz as he floats in his clothes in the murky water. <\/p>\n<p>He appears to hold his arms out to the officers as they approach, according to the clip.<\/p>\n<p>One officer jumps in the water and puts a flotation device around Cruz, the video shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cruz appeared to hold out his arms as officers approached him in the Halifax River. Volusia Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Cruz had taken off running as officers were reading him his Miranda rights. Volusia Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The cop helps him up on a board before the trio make their slow paddle back to a dock where other officers were waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was charged with loitering and prowling and resisting arrest, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get the paddle wagon. Wild video shows two Florida police officers jumping on paddleboards to chase a suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4864,265,28,30,3475,29,4278],"class_list":["post-199092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-man","tag-florida-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199092","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=199092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}