{"id":241332,"date":"2026-07-12T01:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241332\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:41:06","slug":"65-year-old-man-drowns-in-erie-canal-in-newark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241332\/","title":{"rendered":"65-year-old man drowns in Erie Canal in Newark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newark, N.Y. \u2014 A 65-year-old man drowned in the Erie Canal in Wayne County Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Newark police officers responded to Van Buren Street in Newark just before 6:15 p.m. for a report of a water rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue boats were launched to search for the person.<\/p>\n<p>Crews recovered the man from the canal, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Newark Police Chief Agustin Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really hard for me to have words for his girlfriend, his friends here,\u201d said Gonzalez. \u201cMy condolences to them, it\u2019s just a terrible tragedy, my heart goes out to the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez says the incident was accidental.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s identity has not been released by police yet.<\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newark, N.Y. \u2014 A 65-year-old man drowned in the Erie Canal in Wayne County Saturday evening. Newark police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-241332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241332","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=241332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}