{"id":190673,"date":"2026-05-13T00:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190673\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:27:24","slug":"police-rescue-baby-deer-from-storm-drain-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190673\/","title":{"rendered":"Police rescue baby deer from storm drain | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER GWYNEDD TWP., Pa. &#8211; It was a daring rescue as police from Upper Gwynedd Police Department (UGPD) pulled a baby deer from a drain.<\/p>\n<p>A post on the UGPD Facebook page stated police received a call for a baby deer trapped in a sewer drain and officers immediately jumped into action.<\/p>\n<p>The humorous post went on to say that as soon as first responders received the dispatch, &#8220;we all thought the same thing&#8230;Teenage Mutant Ninja Deer!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Police rescue baby deer from storm drain\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0375fba9a65.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Upper Gwynedd Police Department<\/p>\n<p>UDPG Officers Whisler and Coughlin used a lasso and harness to remove the frightened animal from the drain, and they even chose a new name for the deer: &#8220;Leonar-DOE.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER GWYNEDD TWP., Pa. &#8211; It was a daring rescue as police from Upper Gwynedd Police Department (UGPD)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25024,13520,28,30,29,84958],"class_list":["post-190673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-deer","tag-drain","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-upper-gwynedd-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190673","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=190673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}