{"id":561704,"date":"2026-02-02T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/561704\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:37:13","slug":"driver-ends-up-in-ocean-after-huntington-beach-chase-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/561704\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver ends up in ocean after Huntington Beach chase \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police went to the ends of the Earth &#8212; or, at least the end of the beach &#8212; to take a driver into custody after a brief chase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/huntington-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chase began at about 10 p.m. Sunday when an officer tried to pull over a driver for a traffic violation, then learned the car was stolen. The chased ended up on Pacific Coast Highway, where officers deployed spike strips that damaged the car&#8217;s tires.<\/p>\n<p>After a PIT maneuver, a passenger was taken into custody, but the driver ran toward the beach and into the ocean. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1547818150036467\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Video from the police department&#8217;s helicopter<\/a> captured the unusual pursuit as the damp driver was taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police went to the ends of the Earth &#8212; or, at least the end of the beach &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":561705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,59145,32807,2961,224,5337,38010],"class_list":["post-561704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-car-chase","tag-huntington-beach","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-police-pursuit"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116002963067213717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}