{"id":56084,"date":"2026-02-19T08:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=56084"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:38:48","slug":"p9-2-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p9-2-18-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Investigate Escaped Inmate in Pike County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>PIKEVILLE, Ky.<\/strong> <strong>(February 18, 2026)<\/strong> \u2013 The Kentucky State Police, Pikeville Post, is searching for an inmate who walked away from the Pike County Detention Center at 5:53 p.m. today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whitney Hurley, 36 years of age, from Freeburn, Ky., is described as a white female, 6\u20190&#8243;&nbsp;tall, weighing 127 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. Hurley was last seen wearing white shorts and a white t-shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who may have information about the location of Whitney Hurley is asked to call KSP Post 9 at 606-433-7711.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing investigation is being conducted by KSP Trooper Brennan Eckart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mnbvc-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56085\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIKEVILLE, Ky. (February 18, 2026) \u2013 The Kentucky State Police, Pikeville Post, is searching for an inmate who walked away from the Pike County Detention Center at 5:53 p.m. today. Whitney Hurley, 36 years of age, from Freeburn, Ky., is described as a white female, 6\u20190&#8243;&nbsp;tall, weighing 127 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,62],"tags":[578,243],"class_list":["post-56084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-9","tag-escaped-inmate","tag-post-9"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-Article-Graphics-KSP-Default-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56086,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions\/56086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}