{"id":390116,"date":"2026-07-29T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390116\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:02:08","slug":"5-year-old-poteet-boy-identified-after-drowning-at-port-aransas-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390116\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old Poteet boy identified after drowning at Port Aransas beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ARANSAS, Texas \u2014 A trip to the coast turned tragic for one San Antonio-area family vacationing in Port Aransas last week.<\/p>\n<p>Benny Arredondo, 5, of Poteet, has been identified as the boy who drowned last Wednesday near Beach Marker 46 in Port Aransas.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the boy&#8217;s flotation device had been removed while the family was packing up to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The call came in just after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when family members lost sight of him and reported him missing.<\/p>\n<p>Benny was found a short time later. That&#8217;s when a Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden began CPR.<\/p>\n<p>Port Aransas police officers also took part in lifesaving measures before he was taken to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The Nueces County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office is investigating the death along with investigators from the Port Aransas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officials urge parents to maintain constant, arm&#8217;s-length supervision of young children, especially around water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ARANSAS, Texas \u2014 A trip to the coast turned tragic for one San Antonio-area family vacationing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-390116","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\/390116","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=390116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}