CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – After a manhunt across multiple counties in Tennessee, deputies in Montgomery County arrested a man charged with intentionally driving into two patrol cars in Houston County Tuesday morning.

James Clayton Hooper of Houston County was arrested in Clarksville and charged with evading arrest; auto theft; reckless driving; resisting stop, frisk, arrest and search; driving on a suspended or revoked license; violating parole and out of county warrants.

According to a Facebook post from the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened at the department’s headquarters on Highway 149 in Erin around 6:15 a.m.

Video shows the driver in a white Ford F-250 pick-up truck intentionally crash into two sheriff’s vehicle in the department’s parking lot.

https://www.wkrn.com/news/manhunt-underway-for-driver-who-intentionally-crashed-into-houston-county-sheriff-vehicles/

Hooper was then apprehended in Clarksville several hours later.

Houston County Sheriff Kevin Sugg said the truck Hooper was driving had been stolen in Houston County, according to information obtained by Clarksville Now news partner WKRN-Channel 2 in Nashville.

Sugg said that in addition to the charges in Montgomery County, Hooper will be facing charges in Houston County and from the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

Law enforcement in Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and Stewart County assisted in the search, as well as THP.

No additional information was immediately released.

Correction: The arrestee’s last name is Hooper. The article has been updated.

Casey Williams contributed to this reporting.