{"id":158687,"date":"2012-01-23T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158687"},"modified":"2012-01-24T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:30:39","slug":"an-arrest-in-longview-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158687","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Identified in Longview Hit and Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=158742\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-158742\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/smelley.1327335649-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"smelley.1327335649\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-158742\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2013- A Longview man is facing a variety of charges after leading police on a chase. The suspect, James Eric Smelley, 26, is said to have stolen a truck around 1:30 Sunday afternoon. He hit a couple of cars and a boat when he ran a red light at the intersection of McCann Road and U.S. Highway 80. After going through the intersection Smelley reportedly hit two more cars. He then led officers on a brief foot chase before being caught. No injuries were reported. The suspect was taken to the hospital for evaluation. <\/p>\n<p>Smelley is charged with evading arrest in a vehicle, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, theft of a motor vehicle, and accident involving damage. He was booked into the Gregg County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013- A Longview man is facing a variety of charges after leading police on a chase. The suspect, James Eric Smelley, 26, is said to have stolen a truck around 1:30 Sunday afternoon. He hit a couple of cars and a boat when he ran a red light at the intersection of McCann Road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suspect Identified in Longview Hit and Run<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 16:27:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158687","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158687"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159083,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158687\/revisions\/159083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}