The Great Smoky Mountain Journal

Staff, Wire Reports

Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 07:25 PM

Man Wanted On Tennessee's Top Ten TBI Most Wanted Captured In Arkansas

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A man added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Top 10 Most Wanted list in October was captured in Arkansas early Friday morning.

James Rush Huddleston was wanted by the Spring Hill Police Department and the TBI to face a homicide charge connected to a shooting on October 29 in Hohenwald. Phillip Pero, 35, of Hohenwald was killed during the shooting.

The TBI and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force developed information that Huddleston was in Omaha, Arkansas. He was arrested by the West Arkansas U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force early Friday morning.

He is being held in the Boone County Jail in Arkansas, pending extradition to Tennessee.