In an update to our earlier reports, Shelby County Sheriff Neil Gross told KJAN News this morning, that while he doesn’t have a whole lot of information, he was confident the subject of a pursuit that ended northwest of Atlantic Sunday evening, was wanted for a Controlled Substance Violation, and out of Nebraska for possessing a stolen vehicle. The Sheriff says it’s his understanding a pursuit of the unidentified subject began near Manning, Harlan Police picked up the chase just before 5-p.m., and Shelby County Deputies, along with the Iowa State Patrol engaged in a chase that wound its way through Shelby County and into Cass County, where deputies deployed stop sticks to slowly deflate the vehicles’ tires.

The vehicle went toward Marne, before (according to dispatch reports), driving through a field, and finally ending up in a ditch off of Highway 83, about two-miles west of Highway 173. The chase ended with the suspect taken into custody shortly after 6-p.m. The driver was brought to the Cass County Memorial Hospital by Medivac Ambulance, and later flown by helicopter to a hospital in Nebraska. Also assisting during the chase, was the Iowa State Patrol. Marne Fire and Rescue and Atlantic Fire were dispatched to the accident scene, as well.

Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.