A Jacksonville man is facing a felony charge and several traffic offenses after court documents say he fled from a North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper on a motorcycle and reached speeds of up to 140 mph.<\/p>\n
According to warrants, 21-year-old Caleb Matthew Hubbard was arrested Aug. 31 after the chase in Onslow County.<\/p>\n
Court documents say Hubbard was traveling on U.S. 17 when a state trooper attempted to stop him. Investigators say Hubbard continued driving despite the trooper’s lights and siren.<\/p>\n
The warrants state Hubbard was clocked traveling 95 mph and 104mph in a 55 mph zone on U.S. 17.<\/p>\n
Hubbard is charged with felony fleeing to elude arrest with a motor vehicle while recklessly driving a motorcycle.<\/p>\n
He also faces charges of failure to heed a light or siren, reckless driving, no motorcycle endorsement, displaying a fictitious registration plate, and no liability insurance.<\/p>\n
Court documents also cite two infractions. One says Hubbard failed to stop for a steady red light while traveling on Western Boulevard. The other involves a motorcycle headlamp violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville man is facing a felony charge and several traffic offenses after court documents say he fled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-394943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}