A Sweetwater man driving through Knoxville ended up being the subject of a three-county chase early Sunday when he fled a traffic stop.

According to the Knox County Sheriff's Office, William Howard Ferguson III, was stopped in a 1995 Mustang on Cavette Hill just after midnight. It was as a Knox County Deputy was approaching him that Ferguson changed his mind about stopping and took off, knocking the deputy to the ground, but not injuring him.

The chase was on and Knox County Deputies Joseph Sulewski and Joshua Hoskins pursued Ferguson out of Knox County, through Loudon County, where they joined the chase and into Monroe County.

See full story in the Wednesday, March 20, edition of The Advocate & Democrat.