Crime & Safety
Spring Hill Murder Suspect Captured In Arkansas
James Huddleston, on the TBI's Most Wanted list since October, was arrested in Arkansas early Friday, charged in a Spring Hill murder.
OMAHA, AR -- One of Tennessee's most wanted fugitives was arrested early Friday morning in a tiny Arkansas town, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced.
James Rush Huddleston, 34, was wanted by the Spring Hill Police Department and the TBI to face criminal homicide charges connected to the Oct. 29 shooting death of Phillip Pero, 35, of Hohenwald.
The TBI and the U.S. Marshals Service developed information Huddleston was in Omaha, Ark., a town of 157 people three miles south of the Missouri border. He was arrested early Friday morning by U.S. Marshals.
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He is currently being held in the Boone County Jail in Harrison, Ark., pending extradition to Tennessee.
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