{"id":289877,"date":"2026-09-19T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289877\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:14:11","slug":"brecknock-township-man-identified-after-being-found-dead-in-private-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289877\/","title":{"rendered":"Brecknock Township man identified after being found dead in private pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a 77-year-old man who was found dead in a private pond in Brecknock Township earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>George E. Dunda, 77, of Brecknock Township, was identified as the man found in a pond in the 1600 block of Wyomissing Road, according to an update released by the Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks County 911 Center received a call on Sept. 14 reporting an individual in the pond. Investigators from the Coroner\u2019s Office responded to the scene, where Dunda was pronounced dead at 3:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances surrounding Dunda\u2019s death remain under investigation. The Coroner\u2019s Office said additional information will be released as the investigation permits.<\/p>\n<p>The Coroner\u2019s Office thanked the Brecknock Township Police Department for assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a 77-year-old man who was found dead in a private pond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-289877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289877","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=289877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}