Troopers arrest Kansas man accused of child abduction after chase on I-70
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Kansas man was arrested and charged after a short chase on Tuesday that began in Cooper County and ended just before the Stadium Boulevard exit on Interstate 70 in Columbia.
Jonathan Myles, 36, of Topeka, Kansas, was charged in Cooper County with aggravated fleeing, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, misdemeanor speeding and an infraction of endangering a highway worker. He is being held at the Cooper County Jail on a $100,000 bond. A court date has not been set.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol wrote on Troop F’s social media that a plane was used to find Myles’ Dodge Durango. MSHP wrote that Myles was wanted out of Kansas on suspicion of child endangerment. New charges have not appeared in Kansas online court records as of Tuesday evening.
The probable cause statement says that the gray Dodge with temporary tags from Kansas was found on the shoulder of the rest area at the 104-mile marker of I-70. Myles allegedly sped off eastward after seeing the trooper, the statement says.
Myles’ vehicle allegedly went 96 miles per hour at one point through a 55-mph construction zone, the statement says.
Spike strips were used near the 121-mile marker and Myles stopped the vehicle while it was smoking at mile marker 123, which is just west of the Stadium Boulevard exit in Columbia.
Myles’ 2-year-old son was found inside the vehicle “unrestrained,” court documents say.