{"id":77859,"date":"2025-12-05T22:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77859\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:42:11","slug":"crews-recover-mans-body-from-irvings-vilbig-lake-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77859\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews recover man\u2019s body from Irving\u2019s Vilbig Lake, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/author\/Suryatapa-Chakraborty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:50 \/ 50\" class=\"dmnc_generic-article-byline-byline-module__7CCQK rounded-circular mr-5 dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/dmn\/aafe6752-e0d9-433e-bef2-1e16.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dec. 3, 2025<\/p>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<p>Updated Dec. 4, 2025 at 3:24 p.m. CST<\/p>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A man\u2019s body has been recovered from Vilbig Lake after crews mounted a two-day, multiagency search, according to a news release Wednesday from Irving police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officers responded Monday to a call to assist fire crews after a report at 7:45 p.m. about a man falling from a boat into the lake, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThe reporting party stated that the individual fell into the water and could no longer be seen,\u201d the release said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The man has been identified as Dominic Brown, 51, according to online records from the Dallas County medical examiner\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said Brown was not wearing a life jacket at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Upon arriving, officers deployed drones while fire crews searched the area, according to authorities. Lewisville\u2019s dive team also helped in the search, according to officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said they were unable to find the man \u201cdespite extensive efforts.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The following day, as recovery operations resumed, fire crews from Irving and Grand Prairie, along with the Grand Prairie Dive Team and Texas Game Wardens, continued the search. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">About 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Brown\u2019s body was recovered, police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 3, 2025 | Updated Dec. 4, 2025 at 3:24 p.m. CST | A man\u2019s body has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1266,223,27,410],"class_list":{"0":"post-77859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-irving","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77859","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=77859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}