KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WVLT) - A known Knoxville gang leader has been arrested after a high-speed chase in the Tri-Cities, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

Marshal David Jolley said that 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.

Jolley said when King spotted officers in Kingsport, he fled in a Jeep at speeds over 100 miles an hour on the shoulder of the highway.

King then crashed the Jeep on I-81 at the Tennessee and Virginia Stateline, Jolley said.

King has a long and violent criminal history, according to Jolley, and is a known leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang in Knoxville.

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