A Trout Lake man has gone missing in an apparent attempt to avoid arrest and prosecution on federal criminal charges.
The Klickitat County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) took a missing person report on the evening of June 9 concerning David F. Tilton, 60. According to KCSO, Tilton was last seen driving away from his residence at 4:40 that afternoon.
“Further investigation reveal-ed that Mr. Tilton was scheduled to turn himself in at the Yakima FBI office the following morning on a federal arrest warrant for criminal charges. He never arrived,” Chief Criminal Deputy Mike Kallio said in a KCSO press release issued Tuesday afternoon
Kallio later told The Enterprise by e-mail he was not at liberty to discuss the charges, per order of the FBI.
Local law enforcement agents went on the look-out for Tilton and/or his vehicle after an alert was issued. On the morning of Saturday, June 13, Tilton’s vehicle was found parked off Gifford Pinchot National Forest Road 60 at its intersection with the Pacific Crest Trail, in Skamania County.
Both public and private air resources and ground searchers attempted to locate Tilton in the days following his disappearance, to no avail, Kallio said.
“The investigation strongly suggests that Tilton is fleeing prosecution and deliberately attempting not to be found,” Kallio said. “For this reason, KC-SO is not treating this situation as a search-and-rescue matter.”
Anyone seeing Tilton is asked to immediately notify their local police department.
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