{"id":1326090,"date":"2024-05-29T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1326090"},"modified":"2024-05-31T03:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:10:25","slug":"3-arrested-after-smith-county-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1326090","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested after Smith County pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \"\"Our news partners at KETK report that three people were arrested on Tuesday after a pursuit with Smith County authorities led to the seizure of more than 90 grams of methamphetamine. According to authorities, a Smith County Precinct 5 Deputy Constable attempted to make a traffic stop on southbound US 271 North and the car \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fled at a high rate of speed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The driver continued to evade law enforcement before officials said they pulled into the parking lot of the Texas Best Smokehouse on US 271 at I-20 and dropped off a female passenger before continuing to evade authorities.<\/p>\n

The driver, identified as Jacob Kovarik, 44 of Chandler, later returned to the Texas Best Smokehouse parking lot and ran into a wooded area near the parking lot where he was shortly after taken into custody. <\/p>\n

The female passenger, identified as Brandy Franklin, 31 of Tyler, was detained by a Smith County K9 deputy along with another woman, identified as Brandy Rucker, 48 of Whitehouse, who officials said was trying to help Franklin.<\/p>\n

Officials said the women were standing next to a pickup truck with an open door, and a search revealed a total of 92.6 grams of methamphetamine, a digital scale and multiple clear baggies.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The evidence recovered is indicative of the manufacture and\/or selling of illicit narcotics,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d officials said.<\/p>\n

Kovarik was found to have an outstanding parole violation warrant and he was booked into the Smith County Jail for the warrant, and additional charges of evading arrest with a vehicle and possession of a controlled substance. His bond was set at a combined $75,000.<\/p>\n

Franklin and Rucker were both arrested for manufacture and or delivery of a controlled substance between four and 200 grams. Their bonds were each set at $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news partners at KETK report that three people were arrested on Tuesday after a pursuit with Smith County authorities led to the seizure of more than 90 grams of methamphetamine. According to authorities, a Smith County Precinct 5 Deputy Constable attempted to make a traffic stop on southbound US 271 North … Continue reading 3 arrested after Smith County pursuit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1326096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/Jacobandthebrandys-225x127.webp","fifu_image_alt":"3 arrested after Smith County pursuit","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:32:50","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\/2024\/05\/Jacobandthebrandys-225x127.webp","fifu_image_alt":"3 arrested after Smith County pursuit","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326090","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1326090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326095,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326090\/revisions\/1326095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}