{"id":62721,"date":"2015-06-30T19:48:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T23:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=62721"},"modified":"2015-06-30T19:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T23:48:48","slug":"body-recovered-from-barge-canal-in-herkimer-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=62721","title":{"rendered":"Body Recovered from Barge Canal in Herkimer County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/state-police-seal-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61900\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/state-police-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"state-police-seal-150x150\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/state-police-seal-150x150.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/state-police-seal-150x150-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>(Little Falls, NY \u2013 June 30, 2015) This morning, at approximately 4:30 a.m. a Canal Structure Operator for the New York State Canal Corporation observed a floating body at Lock 17 in the City of Little Falls.\u00a0 The body was removed from the water and identified as\u00a0Ernest C. Hoke Jr., age 48, from Herkimer.\u00a0 The body was then removed from the scene and transported to Little Falls Hospital pending an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has information about this case or who may have seen Mr. Hoke in the past few days they are asked to contact State Police in Herkimer at (315) 866-7275.<\/p>\n<p>State Police were assisted at scene by the Little Falls Police Department, Little Falls Fire Department and the New York State Canal Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Little Falls, NY \u2013 June 30, 2015) This morning, at approximately 4:30 a.m. a Canal Structure Operator for the New York State Canal Corporation observed a floating body at Lock 17 in the City of Little Falls.\u00a0 The body was removed from the water and identified as\u00a0Ernest C. Hoke Jr., age 48, from Herkimer.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}