Henderson County manhunt ends with arrest
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HENDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — The suspect in a manhunt off I-40 following a traffic stop is now under arrest. Saturday night, officers combed the woods for nearly an hour while searching for an armed man who took off after being stopped by troopers near mile marker 112. Those who live around the search site say their homes were put on lockdown and that they were afraid. “They said he was armed, so you know everybody in the neighborhood was pretty spooked about it,” Terry Webb said. Webb said he was standing outside around 8 p.m. when he heard troopers make the stop. “I heard something, heard some noise coming from somewhere, and I got to listening and it was a cop on the loud speaker down on the interstate saying ‘driver get out of the car,'” Webb said. Webb said less than 10 minutes later, the area below his house was swarming with officers and a helicopter was flying overhead. “The county came up here and told us to get in the house, stay in the house and lock the doors, that there’s somebody on the loose with a gun that escaped out of a car off the interstate,” Webb said. Ariel Green, who lives in the same neighborhood, was at work during the search. “I didn’t know what to do if he would’ve come up to me,” she said. “I mean, I was scared to come home — I was seriously thinking about staying at work.” Deputies said troopers eventually arrested Joshua Carpenter on counts of evading arrest, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine and marijuana. Troopers are not saying why he was stopped in the first place or why he might have run. Booking records show Carpenter is from Jackson. Neighbors said they are relieved. “I feel more safe, a lot safer up here,” Green said. Henderson County Sheriff Brian Duke said Carpenter is jailed in lieu of a $100,000 bond.
