{"id":7704,"date":"2018-05-02T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:38:51","slug":"smud-vehicle-in-the-river-death-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2018\/05\/02\/smud-vehicle-in-the-river-death-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"SMUD &#8220;Vehicle in the River&#8221; Death Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EDSO Sergeant Anthony Prencipe. Img: \u00a0EDSO Dive Team training at Sly Park Lake]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On May 1, 2018, at around 11:15 PM, the El Dorado County Sheriff\u2019s Office was called by SMUD Security regarding a distress call from one of their employees near the SMUD powerhouse on Peavine Ridge Road. \u00a0The contact from the employee stated they were in their vehicle in the river at an unspecified location.<\/p>\n<p>El Dorado County Sheriff Deputies, Search and Rescue and a CHP Helicopter responded to the area and conducted a search for the employee and vehicle. \u00a0Due to the large area and inclement weather, the vehicle, which had been submerged in water, was found at 7:41 AM. \u00a0The El Dorado County Dive Team responded and located the employee, who was deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The decedent was identified as Brent Jared Cluff, a 33 year old out of Sacramento and next of kin has been notified. \u00a0The California Highway Patrol will be investigating the accident and cause of death is pending the coroner\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDSO Sergeant Anthony Prencipe. Img: \u00a0EDSO Dive Team training at Sly Park Lake] On May 1, 2018, at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7705,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions\/7705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}