{"id":201508,"date":"2026-05-24T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201508\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:23:54","slug":"barge-found-floating-in-lake-erie-owner-comes-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201508\/","title":{"rendered":"Barge found floating in Lake Erie, owner comes forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">VERMILLION, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Vermillion police found an abandoned barge floating in Lake Erie Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the barge is 35 feet long and was floating a quarter mile west of the Vermillion River.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Vermillion police found an abandoned barge floating in Lake Erie Sunday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IBNS2VFZK5BS3OI42ZPKULVN6Q.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Vermillion police found an abandoned barge floating in Lake Erie Sunday.(WOIO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The owner of the barge has come forward and will secure it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Erie County sheriff provided an update stating the barge is near Sherod Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s uncertain whether the barge will be removed Sunday, so the Coast Guard is placing lights around it to help boaters see it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vermillion police advise boaters to exercise caution around the vessel until it\u2019s removed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VERMILLION, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Vermillion police found an abandoned barge floating in Lake Erie Sunday. Police say the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[49793,45229,47947,89072,136,24813,138,137,260,89073,89074,21939,89070,89071,89075],"class_list":["post-201508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-army-corps","tag-barge","tag-coast-guard","tag-eire-county","tag-erie","tag-erie-county-sheriff","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-lake-erie-barge","tag-sherod-park","tag-vermillion","tag-vermillion-police","tag-vermillion-police-department","tag-vermillion-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201508","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=201508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}