{"id":56300,"date":"2025-12-09T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56300\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:30:14","slug":"mentor-on-the-lake-officer-saves-woman-who-jumped-into-frigid-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56300\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentor-on-the-Lake officer saves woman who jumped into frigid Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MENTOR-ON-THE-LAKE, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A woman fleeing from police jumped into Lake Erie Tuesday morning and a Mentor-on-the-Lake officer followed her in the frigid water and pulled her to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A second Mentor-on-the-Lake officer was injured after slipping on icy rocks trying to rescue her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The woman, whose name is not being released, is being treated at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mentor-on-the-Lake Police Chief John Forsythe said the officers are also recovering well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Chief Forsythe, officers received two calls Tuesday morning about a woman knocking on resident\u2019s doors and trying to open one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When officers found the woman sitting in her car, she fled the scene, and drove to a park at the north end of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She then jumped out of her car and ran into the lake, said Chief Forsythe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chief Forsythe added the incident remains under investigation and no charges have been filed at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MENTOR-ON-THE-LAKE, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A woman fleeing from police jumped into Lake Erie Tuesday morning and a Mentor-on-the-Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,18171,31144,1385],"class_list":{"0":"post-56300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-lake","12":"tag-mentor-on-the-lake","13":"tag-police-officers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56300","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=56300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}