LEE COUNTY – A high-speed chase through Lee County has landed one yet-to-be identified man in the Lee County Jail.
According to Lee County Sheriff Stacy Weber, a male suspect is in custody after about 10 deputies with the sheriff’s department including reserves, along with officers from Fort Madison, West Point/Donnellson, and Keokuk police departments and two K9 officers searched the woods near Hillcrest off of 227th Street.
Weber and Chief Deputy Will Conlee located the individual walking up a creek bed after several hours trying to locate the male in the timber.
Weber said if wasn’t for the people in and around the area the search would have gone into the night.
“If it wasn’t for the people of Lee County in that area this would have turned into a night search. Had the neighbors not been observing and on the lookout we wouldn’t have caught him when we did,” Weber said.
The suspect led officials on a high-speed dangerous chase up Hwy 218 from the intersection at Hwy. 61 in Keokuk. Weber said the highest speed he was clocked at was 136 mph in the white 2022 Lexus. At several locations in the chase law enforcement saw marks on the highway where the suspect lost control trying to navigate turns at high rates of speed.
“He blew by me on X23 west of West Point and then we spotted him headed west on Hwy 2 where he wrecked his vehicle by Hillcrest between Hillcrest Hostas and Hwy. 2 on 227th Street. From there he left on foot into the woods.”
The Iowa State Patrol had pulled the vehicle over on a traffic stop for a window tints and were talking to him when the suspect fled from the traffic stop at about 10:30 a.m. near Keokuk.
Weber said the state patrol is handling the investigation as it was their original traffic stop and any charges will come from that agency. The Lexus was registered out of Arkansas.
Lee County Conservation officers, Lee County EMS Ambulance, and Donnellson Fire & Rescue also assisted in the chase and subsequent search.
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