 Bring your own device to Appalachian Wireless and get up to $300 in bill credits. If you're looking to switch to the Big Blue Appalachian Wireless Network, there's no better time than right now to bring in your device, because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. On the morning of January 25th, a man fed a traffic stop and jumped in the Big Sandy River to evade capture. The suspect left their vehicle to run to the river bank behind Long John Silver's and Pikeville and plunged into the river where the currents had carried him, soon after he was found dead in the water. So the Sixth State Police is conducting a death investigation after a deceased subject was located in the river there off U.S. 23 in the Pikeville area. Just before 11 o'clock this morning, a trooper post-9 had conducted a traffic stop. Winch point during the course of the traffic stop, one of the occupants of the vehicle fled the vehicle running towards the river. A trooper was seeing the subject enter the water, but then lost sight of him. Local first funders were contacted, such as fire departments and rescue squads, and they began to attempt to locate the subject, and they were able to locate him. He was deceased. We will update when we have more information. Kentucky State Police, Pikeville PD, Pikeville Fire Rescue and Emergency Management were on the scene to investigate. Underwater drones were used to help determine where the currents might have carried the suspect. Pikeville Fire Department utilized their SWIFT water team to find the body. Topful FD was called to the scene to assist. We immediately dispatched out our SWIFT water team, and of course everyone on shift ended up responding as well, but immediately the SHIFT supervisor called for the SWIFT water team to be activated, so we have three water units. One of those were the Air Boat, a Zodiac Boat, and a John Boat. They were all three utilized. From what I understand that the body was actually found behind the area where Lawn John Silver's is on the south end, and what happened was as soon as we realized that the body was going to be a recovery, more so than a rescue, they went ahead and started dragging the river for the body, and again, that's ultimately where rescue crews found the body at was in that location. The SHIFT supervisor on scene made the call to go ahead and call for the mutual aid departments and the agreements that we have in place to make that happen as well as our SWIFT water team that we have trained up. There was 10 of those members on scene, along with our normal SHIFT staff. Reporting for Mountaintop News, I'm Nick Colum.