{"id":1494018,"date":"2026-04-05T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1494018"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:31:06","slug":"high-speed-chase-leads-to-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1494018","title":{"rendered":"High-speed chase through downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1494019\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/josebarboza-191x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/josebarboza-191x200.jpg 191w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/josebarboza-335x350.jpg 335w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/josebarboza-768x803.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/josebarboza.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; A man was arrested on Sunday morning after he allegedly led Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies on a chase through downtown Tyler. Jose Juan Barboza, 25, of Rusk, has been identified by the sheriff\u2019s office as the alleged driver. According to the sheriff\u2019s office and our news partner KETK, a deputy started pursuing a white pickup truck at around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday near the intersection of Broadway Avenue and Loop 49. The truck was heading north on Broadway Avenue at speeds over 100 miles per hour and eventually reached downtown Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>Barboza reportedly ran red lights heading north through Tyler and stopped the truck near the intersection of East Queen Street and Broadway Avenue, just north of downtown Tyler. The suspect led deputies on a brief foot chase, and was arrested a short time later, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Barboza was arrested and booked into the Smith County Jail for driving while intoxicated and evading arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; A man was arrested on Sunday morning after he allegedly led Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies on a chase through downtown Tyler. Jose Juan Barboza, 25, of Rusk, has been identified by the sheriff\u2019s office as the alleged driver. According to the sheriff\u2019s office and our news partner KETK, a deputy started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1494018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High-speed chase through downtown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1494227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/josebarboza-191x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 06:08:54","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\/2026\/04\/josebarboza-191x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494018","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494018"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494581,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494018\/revisions\/1494581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}