(Update 8-p.m.: Suspect taken into custody apparently by a K9 unit just before 8-p.m. No other details available.)

Law enforcement officers with the Pottawattamie and Shelby County Sheriff’s Office,  Iowa State Patrol and elsewhere were converging on Walnut late Monday evening following a chase that began near Avoca with a traffic stop. The suspect, a white male wearing a tank top and driving a black 1996 Cadillac Deville took off and led a deputy on a chase along Highway 83 that terminated in Walnut at around 6:18-p.m, where the driver abandoned the car and took off on foot near the intersection with Atlantic Street.

A search was being conducted of the area as of 6:30-p.m.