{"id":113004,"date":"2026-02-13T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:23:11","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-in-deadly-erie-canal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113004\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Pleads Guilty in Deadly Erie Canal Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guilty plea in the case of a man who drove a U-Haul Truck into the Erie Canal during a police chase last year, killing his passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Armstrong pleaded guilty to manslaughter after leading officers on a pursuit. <\/p>\n<p>Police say he and another man were seen shoplifting from a Walgreens in Brockport.<\/p>\n<p>The chase crossed into Orleans County, where Armstrong drove the truck straight into the Erie Canal. <\/p>\n<p>He swam away, but his passenger, 56-year-old Reginald Russell, went under and drowned<\/p>\n<p>With Wednesday\u2019s plea deal, he now faces four to eight years in state prison. <\/p>\n<p>Sentencing is in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A guilty plea in the case of a man who drove a U-Haul Truck into the Erie Canal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[347,136,919,138,137,53828,16041,14006],"class_list":{"0":"post-113004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-crash","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-canal","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-manslaughter","14":"tag-plea","15":"tag-pursuit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}