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Suspect Charged In Car Theft, Metro East Police Chase Has Extensive Record
The SUV was reported stolen out of Columbia, Illinois. No one was injured.
May 06, 2021
A St. Louis County man was taken into custody after a Tuesday morning police chase in the Metro East. Just before 2 a.m., deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office were responding to a report of two people checking car doors near Dianne Ave. When they arrived, two cars sped away from the neighborhood. One of the suspects was able to escape officers but the crashed a black SUV in Sauget and tried to escape on foot. The SUV also hit two other cars.
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The SUV was reported stolen out of Columbia, Illinois. No one was injured.
"He fled from the scene but they caught him a short time later on foot," said Monroe County Sheriff Neal Rohlfing.
According to Sheriff Rohlfing, 20-year-old Lecoy Dean, of St. Louis County, was charged with assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon - shooting at / from a motor vehicle and unlawful possession of a firearm.
In the last four years, Dean has been arrested and charged with crime six times. At 17, he was arrested in St. Ann and charged with assault. Capt. Dan Cowsert with the St. Ann Police Department said Dean and two others were causing a disturbance in a store and were asked to leave.
