CINCINNATI -- A driver tried to run over undercover Cincinnati police officers Wednesday afternoon, according to a department spokesman.
Lt. Steve Saunders said the officers, with the Cincinnati Police Department's Violent Crimes Squad, initially were doing an investigation in Walnut Hills.
Someone in a gold Honda Accord tried to hit them on Hemlock Street, Saunders said.
Police believe the driver was Darris Devaughn. He has not yet been taken into custody.
"The driver does have a criminal history and the public should consider this person a danger to others," Saunders told reporters.
Police said Devaughn is wanted on four counts of felonious assault on a police officer, failure to comply with order or signal of police officer, drug trafficking in crack cocaine and heroin and drug possession fo crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
A K-9 unit and helicopter searched an area near Monroe, Florence and Boone streets shortly afterward. That's about a half-mile from Hemlock Street.
Helicopter and canine involved in search. Cincinnati police are looking for suspect accused of trying to hit officers with his car. I’m told suspect crashed his car before running from scene near Boone St and Florence Ave @WCPO pic.twitter.com/pSEFuTQQqr
— Ashley Zilka (@ashleyzilka) April 25, 2018
Here’s a picture of the suspect’s gold Honda. Police say the driver tried to run over officers earlier today. Police are still searching for him @WCPO pic.twitter.com/LGua4tnmqT
— Ashley Zilka (@ashleyzilka) April 25, 2018
Saunders said the suspect crashed there, but he's not yet been found.
The undercover officers were not injured.
Police asked anyone with information to call them at 911 or 513-569-8651, or Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.
