{"id":642471,"date":"2025-12-19T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/642471\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:46:17","slug":"former-the-voice-contestant-arrested-for-vehicular-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/642471\/","title":{"rendered":"Former &#8216;The Voice&#8217; contestant arrested for vehicular homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kata-Hay-Singer-2024-Far-Out-Magazine--1140x855.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kata Hay - Singer - 2024\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Kata Hay)<\/p>\n<p> Fri 19 December 2025 12:24, UK <\/p>\n<p>Kata Hay, a former contestant on the <a href=\"http:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/television\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">television<\/a> show The Voice, has been arrested for vehicular homicide.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, from Oklahoma, who appeared on the tenth edition of the hit series in 2016, was arrested by the Goodlettsville Police Department in Tennessee on December 17th.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, published earlier this week before her arrest, the Goodlettsville Police Department issued a rallying call for locals to find Hay, whose real name is Kata Huddleston.<\/p>\n<p>The post reads, \u201cWe have reason to believe that she may be enroute to Oklahoma and traveling with a white male and quite possibly towing a large camper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the call to citizens, Huddleston was arrested shortly afterwards. In a later Facebook post, the police confirmed, \u201cThe Goodlettsville Police Department would like to thank the multitude of citizens who called in with tips as to the location of Ms. Huddleston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The message added, \u201cAs a direct result we are pleased to announce that she was arrested early this morning in Oklahoma where she will be extradited back to Davidson County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/18\/voice-contestant-kata-hay-arrested-vehicular-homicide-warrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TMZ<\/a>, Huddleston is currently being held at the Osage County Jail in Pawhuska, <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/u2-accept-the-woody-guthrie-prize-for-2025-in-oklahoma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Oklahoma<\/a>. The publication also reports that she has an open DUI case relating to an incident in Davidson County on December 10th.<\/p>\n<p>On December 22nd, Huddleston is set to go before a district court judge in Oklahoma to sign a waiver of extradition.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Huddleston was sentenced to six months in prison for having sexual contact with a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n<p>The Far Out Music Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>All the latest music news from the independent voice of culture.<br \/>Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Kata Hay) Fri 19 December 2025 12:24, UK Kata Hay, a former contestant on the television show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,11727,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-642471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-television","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115747015615047206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}