{"id":1142244,"date":"2022-07-07T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1142244"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T21:31:00","slug":"fugitive-caught-and-arrested-after-chase-through-kilgore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1142244","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive caught and arrested after chase through Kilgore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1142245\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/danger_mushotbackground-175x98.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/danger_mushotbackground-175x98.webp 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/danger_mushotbackground-550x310.webp 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/danger_mushotbackground-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/danger_mushotbackground.webp 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>KILGORE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A wanted man was arrested in Kilgore on Wednesday after being chased by multiple officers, some who joined the chase after he ran past the police station according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you saw us running through the Chick-fil-A parking lot it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t because we were hungry or needed to cool off with a strawberry shake,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kilgore police said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was because were chasing a wanted fugitive.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to officials, Donald \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Danger\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Godbey was spotted by patrol in the downtown area and fled from them. Godbey had already escaped from Kilgore officers the previous week.<!--more--> Officials reported that Police Chief Todd Hunter and Lieutenant Joey Chitwood even joined the chase after they heard it going on from the department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lobby. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As officers converged on him he stopped and gave up near Regions Bank,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d police said. Officials said that Godbey had active warrants for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, evading in a motor vehicle and evading on foot. Police said they believe Godbey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends had been helping him stay on the run, and noted that he had been recently released from Texas Department of Criminal Justice. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was walked over to the Bulldog Bed and Breakfast where he is resting,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d police said in an update on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A wanted man was arrested in Kilgore on Wednesday after being chased by multiple officers, some who joined the chase after he ran past the police station according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you saw us running through the Chick-fil-A parking lot it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t because we were hungry or needed to cool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1142244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fugitive caught and arrested after chase through Kilgore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1142248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/danger_mushotbackground-175x98.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Fugitive caught and arrested after chase through Kilgore","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 23:20:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/danger_mushotbackground-175x98.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Fugitive caught and arrested after chase through Kilgore","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142395,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142244\/revisions\/1142395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}