GREAT FALLS The Montana Highway Patrol said in a news release that two people were taken into custody on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, after a traffic stop led to a high-speed chase.

The agency said that about 3:45 p.m. a Montana Highway Patrol trooper conducted a traffic stop for obstructed registration on a vehicle and no registration on a trailer on US-89/MT-200 near Vaughn.

While the trooper was ordering the driver (suspect 1) to her vehicle, the passenger (suspect 2) took over the driver's seat and fled in the vehicle heading west. Suspect 1 was left detained at the initial traffic stop location and picked up by a Cascade County Sheriff's deputy.

The trooper began chasing suspect 2, who was "known to law enforcement."

Eventually the vehicle was disabled near Lincoln following a Pre

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