An attempted traffic stop Tuesday afternoon in Montgomery County resulted in a multi-agency effort to find a man from Bedford. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says the suspect, 29-year-old James Robert Castillo got away from law enforcement, and may be in the Stanton area, or somewhere in Page County. The incident began at around 3:04-p.m., when a Montgomery County Deputy attempted to stop a vehicle in the area of M Avenue and Highway 34. The 2012 VW Jetta owned by an individual from Blanchard, fled from the Deputy for about 10-miles, heading south and east, with speeds reaching nearly 80 miles per hour.

The chase ended in a corn field south of 260th Street, and on the west side of Q Avenue, just south of the Viking Lake Area. Several area law enforcement officers, Montgomery and Mills County Sheriff K-9’s as well as the EMA drone, searched the area for Castillo. Due to the heat in the corn fields and the known identity of the suspect, the search was called-off after about three-hours. Castillo is described as being 5-feet 6-inches tall, with brown hair. Anyone with information on his location is urged to call the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, or your local law enforcement agency.

Assisting the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in the pursuit and search for the suspect, were deputies with the Adams and Page County Sheriff’s Offices, Montgomery County EMA, an off-duty Red Oak Police Officer, the Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE) Officer, and Mills County K-9 Unit.