Truck Driver Wanted In 6 Chattanooga Highway Deaths Taken Into Custody In Kentucky

  • Friday, August 7, 2015
The truck driver wanted in the deaths of six people in a wreck at Chattanooga has been taken into custody in Kentucky, Chattanooga Police said. 

Benjamin Brewer had been added to the TBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List.

Brewer was arrested Friday about 8:30 p.m. in the parking lot of a Lexington shopping center, WBIR TV said.

The station said officers stated that he kicked the window out of a cruiser after he was taken into custody.

 He was wanted by the Chattanooga Police Department, the U.S.

Marshal's Service, and the TBI stemming from an indictment by the Hamilton County Grand Jury this week, charging Brewer with six counts of vehicular homicide, four counts of reckless aggravated assault, one count of DUI by impairment of narcotics, one count of speeding, and one count of false report of duty status.

 Brewer, 39, was the driver of an 18-wheeler that collided with vehicles stopped in a construction zone on I-75 on June 26.

 He will now face extradition back to Chattanooga.

There was a $1,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
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