{"id":357433,"date":"2026-07-01T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:14:10","slug":"truck-plunges-into-ship-channel-in-port-aransas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357433\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck plunges into ship channel in Port Aransas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Channel1-e-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"537\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224333\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-224333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police check out the scene where a pickup truck was driven off the south jetty and into the ship channel off Port Aransas today \u2013 Wednesday, July 1. (South Jetty staff photo \u00a9 2026 by Freda Greene.)<\/p>\n<p>Police this morning (Wednesday, July 1) are planning to try to remove a pickup truck from the ship channel in Port Aransas after a man accidentally drove it into the water while doing donuts on the beach, police said.<\/p>\n<p>After the vehicle hit the water, the man managed to get out and climb up onto the south jetty, said James Stokes, chief of the Port Aransas Police Department. The driver had few, if any, injuries, Stokes said.<\/p>\n<p>The man then made his way to the area of Horace Caldwell Pier, where police found him and arrested him on a warrant, Stokes said. It couldn\u2019t immediately be determined what the warrant was for.<\/p>\n<p>No one else is believed to have been in the vehicle, the chief said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver\u2019s name wasn\u2019t available, but Stokes said he was a 31-year-old San Antonio resident.<\/p>\n<p>The Corpus Christi Police Department\u2019s dive team has been dispatched as authorities plan to make efforts to get to the truck out of the channel.<\/p>\n<p>The truck wasn\u2019t visible as police gathered on the jetty near daybreak today. The water\u2019s depth where the vehicle went down isn\u2019t known.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police check out the scene where a pickup truck was driven off the south jetty and into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-357433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}