ANGOLA, IN (WTVB) – Law enforcement authorities are looking for a man who they consider to be armed and dangerous after he allegedly tried to run over a Steuben County Sheriff’s Department deputy early Friday morning in the area of the West Otter Lake Public Access Site.
21 year old Vincent H. Chilcote was wanted on warrants out of Steuben, LaGrange, and Noble Counties for failing to appear for court hearings on charges of burglary with a deadly weapon and theft.
After getting a tip, deputies approached a Chevrolet pickup truck which was driven by Chilcote. While deputies tried to take him into custody on the warrants, Chilcote started to flee in his vehicle.
A preliminary investigation indicated that Chilcote allegedly tried to run over one of the deputies who was trying to arrest him.
The deputy then used his firearm and struck Chilcote’s vehicle which continued to drive away.
He was pursued into a bean field about three miles north of the lake where Chilcote abandoned his vehicle and continued to flee on foot. Despite an extensive search, Chilcote could not be located. The name of the deputy who was involved in the shooting incident is being withheld pending an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office. Also under department policy, the deputy has been placed on administrative leave.
Chilcote is described as a white male who is five-feet-four and weighs about 130 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes along with a tattoo of a line on his left arm, a tattoo of an “X” on his left shoulder, and a tattoo reading “Don’t Tread on Me” on his back.
Anyone who knows of his whereabouts is asked to contact the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office or Steuben County Crime Stoppers. Anyone seeing Chilcote should call 911 immediately.
