{"id":43655,"date":"2026-04-02T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/43655\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:51:04","slug":"cause-of-death-revealed-for-new-bern-man-pulled-from-trent-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/43655\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of death revealed for New Bern man pulled from Trent River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; An autopsy completed Monday shows drowning as the cause of death for a man whose body was pulled from a private marina over the weekend, according to New Bern police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police identified the man as 51-year-old Ryan Ford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/03\/30\/body-pulled-trent-river-sunday-identified\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/03\/30\/body-pulled-trent-river-sunday-identified\/\">On Sunday, <\/a>around 1:25 p.m., police were called for a body found in the river behind Sky Sail Boulevard. Officials say a person on scene pulled the body of Ford from the water before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At the time of the drowning, Ford was staying with a friend on their boat at the New Bern Grand Marina, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said no foul play is suspected, as there was no indication of violence or a struggle due to the lack of injuries on Ford\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; An autopsy completed Monday shows drowning as the cause of death for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25227,104,107,25228,25226,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-43655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-autopsy","9":"tag-bern","10":"tag-new-bern","11":"tag-ryan-ford","12":"tag-trent-river","13":"tag-witn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116336858451268296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}