SUMMERDALE — A week after Victor LaShawn Stanton led Summerdale Police on a high-speed chase and eluded them, the 35-year-old Mobile resident remains at large.

“We’re still running out a bunch of leads,” Summerdale Police Chief Eddie Ingram said in a phone interview. “But there’s nothing new.”

What is new is the fact that a search for Stanton has expanded beyond South Baldwin County. In fact, it has reached beyond the Southeast and include the man-power of U.S. Marshal Service.

“We’ve sent an alert out across the nation,” Ingram said.

Why such measures?

“He is considered armed and dangerous, and an extreme escape risk,” Ingram said.

As previously reported, Stanton allegedly drove a 2005 silver Ford F150 pick-up truck to a routine check-point stop at the intersection of County Roads 28 and 55 Saturday. The stop was a periodic exercise in which Summerdale Police check for valid driver’s licenses and insurance. However, Staton and his two passengers, 25-year-old Megan Belinda Brumit of Foley and Desirae Lashae Northcutt of Bon Secour, allegedly appeared nervous and evasive. In addition, the officers reported detecting a smell like marijuana emitting from the vehicle. Therefore, they asked Stanton to pull his truck off the road. Instead, he allegedly pulled away at a high speed, knocking one officer back into a ditch and driving in the direction of a second officer.

As previously reported, this led to a high-speed chase, during which time officers allegedly witnessed what appeared to be contraband being thrown out of the windows of the truck. The chase ended in a Foley residential area with Stanton escaping on foot and Brumit Northcutt unsuccessfully attempting to continue to flee in the truck when the vehicle’s engine locked up.

A three-hour search for Stanton that also involved Foley Police, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office and a K-9 officer proved unsuccessful. So have continued efforts to locate him since them. Ingram said one reason could be that might be receiving help in eluding police. However, the Summerdale Police chief stressed that doing so is a crime.

“We want to make it very clear that anyone who assists Stanton in his flight to avoid apprehension will face state felony charges and possible federal charges for assisting him,” Ingram said. “We’ve sworn out a warrant for one person.”

Details of that warrant are not yet available, as the case is still under investigation.

As previously reported, Stanton has a police record that includes 50 prior arrests, ranging from robbery to kidnapping. Upon arrest for Saturday’s incident, he will face felony charges that include two counts of attempted assault in the first degree on law-enforcement officers.