Kingsport, TN (WOKI) A known Knoxville gang leader has been arrested after a high-speed chase in the Tri-Cities.
Officials with the U.S. Marshals Service say officers were trying to stop Jametrick Franklin King, who was wanted out of Washington County and was under federal indictment out of the U.S. District Court in Greeneville.
According to the Marshals Service when King spotted officers in Kingsport Monday night, he fled in a Jeep at speeds over 100 miles an hour on the shoulder of the highway, eventually crashing the vehicle on I-81 at the Tennessee and Virginia state line.
The Marshals Service says King has a long and violent criminal history and is a known leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang in Knoxville.
