{"id":3127,"date":"2025-05-28T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2025-05-28T04:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:55:22","slug":"body-recovered-from-kalamazoo-river-in-otsego-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/body-recovered-from-kalamazoo-river-in-otsego-township\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Recovered From Kalamazoo River in Otsego Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"147\" data-end=\"313\">PLAINWELL, Mich. \u2014 Authorities recovered a man\u2019s body from the Kalamazoo River on Tuesday afternoon, an incident likely linked to a recent report of a missing person.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"527\">The Allegan County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed the discovery occurred around 2:36 p.m. in Otsego Township, though the exact location was not disclosed. Officials have not yet released the identity of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"822\">The recovery appears connected to an earlier incident on May 17, when Plainwell public safety officers witnessed a man submerge himself in the Kalamazoo River near the US-131 bridge. Despite an extensive search by rescue crews that lasted for several hours, the man was not found at that time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"935\">The sheriff\u2019s office is currently investigating the case, but deputies say there is no indication of foul play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAINWELL, Mich. \u2014 Authorities recovered a man\u2019s body from the Kalamazoo River on Tuesday afternoon, an incident likely linked to a recent report of a missing person. The Allegan County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed the discovery occurred around 2:36 p.m. in Otsego Township, though the exact location was not disclosed. Officials have not yet released the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapidspost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}