Jeffrey Dean Cowen still at-large

Jeffrey Dean Cowan, age 56, is still at-large and thought to have fled to Towns or White County. Lt. Daren Osborn, of the Union County Sheriff’s Department, said Cowan was released on bond to Buck Dills, his bail bondsman, on Sunday, April 23, 2017, at about 2:30 p.m. Cowan told Dills that he needed to meet with his wife at the Dollar General Store at Booger Hollow to get the money to pay his bond fee. Dills drove Cowan to the Dollar General Store where Cowan left Dills waiting in his car and went into the store. Cowan stole a kitchen knife in the store and used it to threaten the clerk into giving him her car keys. Cowan then went out to the clerk’s car and started it, then left that car and went over to Dills car where he proceeded to stab Dills with the kitchen knife. Cowan then fled the scene in the clerk’s car, an orange 2007 Honda Fit, Georgia tag PLU 4697, and drove south on GA Hwy 129. Cowan had been incarcerated since April 10, 2017 on a charge of theft by taking, so he was not thought to be high on any drugs or alcohol at the time of this incident, said Osborn.

Cowan is now wanted by the Union County Sheriff’s Department on two counts of Aggravated Assault, and one count each of False Imprisonment, Possession of a Knife or Firearm During Commission of a Crime, Terroristic Threats, Armed Robbery and Theft by Taking.

Cowan’s whereabouts are not known at this time. Cowan is considered to armed and dangerous. Anyone having knowledge of his whereabouts is urged to contact the Union County Sheriff’s Office at (706) 439-6066.

UPDATE 2:14 p.m Thursday, April 27, 2017:  Lt. Daren Osborn has contacted FetchYourNews.com and reported that Jeffrey Dean Cowan was apprehended in Illinois and is in custody. The stolen vehicle was apprehended with him.  UCSO is in the process of extraditing him back to GA.