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

“We’re hunting him nationwide,” Summerdale Police Chief Eddie Ingram said in a phone interview.

That’s because, 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 on Saturday, Dec. 1. 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.

Ingram said in a previous report that 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.

Since then, authorities have received no leads to Stanton’s whereabouts, despite alerting law enforcement across the nation of the situation. However, Ingram doesn’t think he has fled the Gulf Coast area.

“We still think he’s in the Baldwin County or Mobile County area,” he said.

The one development in the case is early December re-arrest of Brumit, whom Ingram identified as Stanton’s girlfriend. As previously reported, she was charged with hindering an investigation, and police had received information that she was helping Stanton evade arrest.

Upon being arrested a second time mere days after her first apprehension, Brumit was transported to Foley Jail, where she bonded out and is awaiting a court date. Ingram said he anticipates that date to be in February.

The Summerdale Police chief warns area residents against providing Stanton with additional help in eluding arrest, as he is considered armed and dangerous and doing so is a crime.

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

“It’s just a matter of time before we catch him,” Ingram said.

The police chief added that anyone with information regarding Stanton’s whereabouts should call law enforcement immediately.