A man wanted on a warrant for Domestic Abuse/Serious Assault was taken into custody last Friday night after being tracked down by a Guthrie County Sheriff’s Dept. K-9 unit. According to reports, at around 8-p.m., Friday, authorities responded to a residence where it was thought 36-year old David Michael Hunt, Jr. would be found. When they arrived, officials discovered Hunt, Jr., had escaped out the back window of the home and fled on foot.

Officers with the Guthrie Center Police Department and deputies with the Guthrie County Sheriff’s office coordinated their efforts to locate the man, with the aid of the sheriff’s K-9 Unit. Approximately 45 minutes later, they tracked Hunt, Jr. into a timber area in the northern part of Guthrie Center. A perimeter was established with the assistance of the Iowa State Patrol and the IA DOT’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division, and within minutes, the K-9 “Rage” and his partner found Hunt, Jr. and took him into custody.

Hunt was being held without bond in the Guthrie County Jail.