<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=39XuYi_0wLyq16q00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=39XuYi_0wLyq16q00" width="704" height="397" ><figcaption>Mugshot of Jecore King from the Hardin County Detention Center.</figcaption></figure>ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (KT) – The Kentucky State Police (KSP) and local law enforcement agencies were involved in a vehicle and foot pursuit on Interstate-65 Thursday afternoon. An Alabama man was apprehended and arrested.On Thursday, Oct. 24, around 4:00 p.m. (ET), a trooper was conducting speed enforcement on the northbound lanes of I-65 near the 61-mile marker when he stopped a Dodge Challenger for speeding. After making contact with the driver, Jecore King, 26, of Eight Mile, Alabama, the trooper asked King to step outside the vehicle after the trooper smelled the possible presence of marijuana in the car.After asking King to step outside the vehicle, a struggle ensued before King returned to the car and drove away from the trooper, heading northbound on I-65.During the pursuit, the KSP says King passed other vehicles in the emergency lane, reaching speeds of 130 mph. Around the 85-mile marker, the Dodge crashed into an embankment. King then ran off, armed with a handgun, into a cornfield adjacent to the interstate and a perimeter was established with the assistance of the Elizabethtown Police Department and the Hardin Co. Sheriff's Office. After several hours, with the assistance of the Elizabethtown Police Department's special response team and KSP's aircraft branch, King was located and arrested without incident and taken to the Hardin Co. Detention Center, where he is being held on $25,000 full cash bond.King was charged with fleeing and evading, reckless driving, resisting arrest, wanton endangerment and other traffic-related offenses. Northbound I-65 and South Dixie Highway in the Glendale area were shut down out of an abundance of caution for public safety. The KSP Elizabethtown Post was assisted by the Elizabethtown Police Department, Hardin Co. Sheriff's Department and the KSP aircraft branch.The case remains under investigation.</div></body>

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ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (KT) – The Kentucky State Police (KSP) and local law enforcement agencies were involved in a vehicle and foot pursuit on Interstate-65 Thursday afternoon. An Alabama man was apprehended and arrested. On Thursday, Oct. 24, around 4:00 p.m. (ET), a trooper was conducting speed enforcement on the...