Country music singer arrested on vehicular homicide charge
Country music singer Kata Hay, who rose to fame as a contestant on “The Voice,” was arrested in Tennessee and charged with vehicular homicide.
Hay, whose real name is Kata Huddleston, was taken into custody after the Goodlettsville Police Department issued a BOLO earlier in the week.
The alert stated that the 38-year-old singer had “an outstanding arrest warrant for vehicular homicide in connection with a motor vehicle crash on Long Hollow Pike near I-65.”
Police said at the time that they “had reason to believe he was headed to Oklahoma and was traveling with a white male, possibly towing a large trailer.”
Goodlettsville Police released a post on December 17 announcing Huddleston’s arrest in Oklahoma and extradition to Davidson Country.
Whiskey Riff said This is the latest in a series of disturbing events for Huddleston.
He also currently faces a DUI charge and a charge of leaving the scene of an accident with more than $1,500 in damage and an open container, the outlet said. Huddleston was also on probation for a DUI in Nashville in 2017, according to Whiskey Riff.
And according to WKRN, the singer was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to sexual intercourse with a minor.
Huddleston appears on ‘The Voice’ for the 10th timeThis season. She was on Christina Aguilera’s team and reached the top 20 before being eliminated in the first week of the play-offs.
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