{"id":30925,"date":"2025-11-22T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30925"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:42:50","slug":"second-driver-in-fatal-crash-apprehended-faces-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/second-driver-in-fatal-crash-apprehended-faces-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Second driver in fatal crash apprehended, faces charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The second driver in a crash that killed an Adams County man and sent other passengers to the hospital has been located by Wells County police and now faces criminal charges. The man fled after a head-on collision early Saturday morning and was at-large for some time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See our original story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/decatur-man-dead-in-early-morning-collision-other-driver-still-at-large-after-fleeing-scene\/\">Decatur man dead in early-morning collision<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wells County Sheriff&#8217;s Office released the following statement regarding the apprehension of the suspect: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Around 10:15 am, approximately two miles from the crash scene, Juan Jimenez Gomez was captured after he had broke into a hog barn. Juan was identified as Driver 1 in the original report. Juan was transported to a local hospital due to injuries. A criminal case against Juan will be submitted to the Wells County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for formal charges.<\/p><cite>-Wells county sheriff&#8217;s office<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow WZBD.com and 92.7 FM for more information on this developing story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second driver in a crash that killed an Adams County man and sent other passengers to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-30925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30926,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30925\/revisions\/30926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}