{"id":320812,"date":"2014-12-11T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320812"},"modified":"2014-12-12T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:36:52","slug":"man-with-lengthy-record-found-guilty-in-chase-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320812","title":{"rendered":"Man with Lengthy Record Found Guilty in Chase, Manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/joshuacalhounmug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/joshuacalhounmug-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"joshuacalhounmug\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-320813\" \/><\/a>ATHENS \u2014 On Wednesday afternoon, a Henderson County jury delivered a quick verdict after deliberating for only eight minutes in a case that involved a wild chase and manhunt last June.  KETK reports jurors convicted Joshua Paul Calhoun, 34, of Athens, of evading arrest or detention with a motor vehicle &#8212; and also found that he used the vehicle as a deadly weapon in the course of committing the offense. Calhoun has numerous arrests, including an arrest in March of 2009 for theft of an airplane from the Athens Airport. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Last June 18, authorities were made aware of a pickup reportedly stolen by Calhoun traveling on Highway 155 and crossing Lake Palestine. Failing to yield to lights and a siren, the pickup truck sped up after turning down a one-lane county road. As the pickup reached speeds of 90 mph, two bystanders&#8217; vehicles were run off the road. Calhoun drove at high rates of speed through turns and at one point cut through the front yard of a home. After miles of speeding down various roads, Calhoun temporarily got away while forcing the pickup through the entry of a hay pasture. Deputies would ultimately find the severely damaged and no longer drivable pickup at the very end of a pasture in front of an opening into a heavily wooded area.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies were called out in what became a manhunt involving upwards of 25 officers after Calhoun began running through thick woods on foot.  An investigator eventually spotted Calhoun, who was pursued at gunpoint but finally gave up approximately a mile from where the stolen pickup was found.  A sentencing hearing has been set for February 12, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2014 On Wednesday afternoon, a Henderson County jury delivered a quick verdict after deliberating for only eight minutes in a case that involved a wild chase and manhunt last June. KETK reports jurors convicted Joshua Paul Calhoun, 34, of Athens, of evading arrest or detention with a motor vehicle &#8212; and also found that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man with Lengthy Record Found Guilty in Chase, Manhunt<\/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-320812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 14:14:40","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\/320812","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=320812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320814,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320812\/revisions\/320814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}