{"id":245339,"date":"2026-07-16T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:23:06","slug":"investigation-begins-after-a-body-is-recovered-from-erie-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245339\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation begins after a body is recovered from Erie Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Town of Tonawanda Police are investigating after officers found the body of a man in the Erie Canal near Ellicott Creek Park on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. \u2014 Town of Tonawanda Police launched an investigation after officers found a body in the Erie Canal near Ellicott Creek Park on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Foul play is not suspected at this time, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded at 8:32 a.m. Thursday following a report of a possible body in the water. Responding patrol officers located the body of an adult man who &#8220;appeared to have been in the water for several days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/local\/man-found-dead-in-java-lake\/71-603a1ce3-8505-4b85-9bc0-2d761b6b1a9e\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing man found dead after extensive search on Java Lake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The investigation is being conducted by Town of Tonawanda Police. North Tonawanda Police and the Erie County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office are assisting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No further details will be provided at this time,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information that could assist investigators is encouraged to contact the Town of Tonawanda Police Department at 716-879-6614. Tips can also be submitted through the department\u2019s confidential tip line at 716-879-6606.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Town of Tonawanda Police are investigating after officers found the body of a man in the Erie Canal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-245339","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\/245339","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=245339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}