{"id":65168,"date":"2025-11-26T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65168\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:52:08","slug":"arlington-man-arrested-in-atoka-county-after-chase-involving-stolen-maintenance-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65168\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington man arrested in Atoka County after chase involving stolen maintenance truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ATOKA COUNTY, Okla. (KXII) &#8211; A man was arrested by Choctaw Lighthorse Police in Atoka County on Tuesday, after he allegedly stole a Choctaw Nation maintenance truck and lead police on a chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stringtown Police say Nick Benski, 41, of Arlington, Texas was booked into the Atoka County Jail and faces two charges: theft of a motor vehicle and a felony charge of evading arrest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A man was arrested by Choctaw Lighthorse Police in Atoka County on Tuesday, after he allegedly...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Z2ECY5SLAJEUZKWDTBGPBXCTFQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A man was arrested by Choctaw Lighthorse Police in Atoka County on Tuesday, after he allegedly stole a Choctaw Nation maintenance truck and lead police on a chase.(Atoka County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pursuit began after Choctaw Lighthorse Police were alerted to a stolen Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma maintenance truck traveling out of the Durant area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers with Choctaw Lighthorse Police located the vehicle at a gas station in Tushka and attempted to block in the driver with assistance from the Atoka County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Benski fled the gas station and continued northbound on Highway 69 at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour when officers from the Stringtown Police Department joined the pursuit with a successful spike strip deployment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Benski eventually came to a stop near Stringtown after losing his passenger side tires, and was taken into custody by Choctaw Lighthorse Police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KXII. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATOKA COUNTY, Okla. (KXII) &#8211; A man was arrested by Choctaw Lighthorse Police in Atoka County on Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1680,33925,33927,1522,294,33926,2926,5298,1819,33928,33924,33929],"class_list":["post-65168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-arrest","tag-atoka","tag-choctaw","tag-county","tag-crime","tag-nick-benski","tag-oklahoma","tag-police-chase","tag-pursuit","tag-stolen-truck","tag-stringtown","tag-tushka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}