{"id":1169865,"date":"2022-10-07T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169865"},"modified":"2022-10-10T07:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:21:28","slug":"athens-felon-sentenced-to-60-years-for-evading-with-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169865","title":{"rendered":"Athens felon sentenced to 60 years for evading with vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/smithcounty-courthouse-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1169866\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A Smith County jury has sentenced 43-year-old Philip Shane Young of Athens to 60 years in prison for evading with a vehicle. According to a news release from the Smith County DA&#8217;s Office, a Texas Parks and Wildlife officer saw Young at the State Park Exxon on FM 14 at approximately 10:00 p.m. on March 6, 2021. According to authorities, Young appeared to be intoxicated, and when officers approached his vehicle, he sped off. Young then led officers on a high-speed chase from 95 to 100 mph down FM 16 for approximately 20 miles. During the course of the evading, officials say Young ran a red light at the intersection of FM 16 and Highway 69 with other cars present and subsequently caused a vehicle in front of him to run off the road. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The evading finally ended when Young wrecked his vehicle. The jury found that Young used his vehicle as a deadly weapon during the course of the chase. At the sentencing phase, the jury heard that Young had nine prior convictions, including a prior felony evading and two prior felony DWIs. At the time of the offense, Young was on bond for a pending felony DWI and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon charge in Henderson County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A Smith County jury has sentenced 43-year-old Philip Shane Young of Athens to 60 years in prison for evading with a vehicle. According to a news release from the Smith County DA&#8217;s Office, a Texas Parks and Wildlife officer saw Young at the State Park Exxon on FM 14 at approximately 10:00 p.m. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athens felon sentenced to 60 years for evading with vehicle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1169881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/smithcounty-courthouse-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Athens felon sentenced to 60 years for evading with vehicle","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 09:30:06","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\/10\/smithcounty-courthouse-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Athens felon sentenced to 60 years for evading with vehicle","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169865","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169865"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169879,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169865\/revisions\/1169879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}