SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Wanted by Ohio authorities for nearly two years on charges he used a knife and stun gun during a home invasion, James L. Bussle's life on the lam ended last week.

No longer a fugitive, he's an inmate in the Butler County Prison.

State police on Wednesday arrested Bussle, 42, of Slippery Rock Township on drug trafficking charges.

Vice officers took him down after a traffic stop on Route 8, not far from his home on Boozel Road.

In his pocket, police found prescription painkillers. In the car he was riding in, they found a bag of morphine pills that belonged to him

Bussle admitted he was on his way to deliver the drugs to a resident at a nearby trailer park when he was stopped, according to court documents.

The defendant remains in the county prison on $80,000 bail on a list of felony drug charges. Separately, he's being held on a detainer for the felony warrant out of Ohio on aggravated burglary and kidnapping charges.

The state police vice unit in February launched an investigation into Bussle's alleged drug dealing in Butler County. On Feb. 16, officers used a police informant to make a controlled drug buy, documents said.

Bussle is accused of selling 10 pills of Vicodin, a narcotic painkiller and psychedelic mushrooms to the informant for $125.

During the investigation, police said, they learned Bussle was wanted in connection with a violent 2013 home burglary in Ravenna, Ohio, just outside Kent, where Bussle was living at the time.

Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County, is about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland

Ravenna police said Bussle and two others, a man and woman, on March 23, 2013, broke into the house of a couple they knew. Bussle claimed the man there owed him $800, according to the police complaint.

During the alleged crime, Bussle zapped the man with a stun gun and kicked him in the groin, police said. He later allegedly pulled a large butcher knife and held it to the throat of the victim's girlfriend.

At one point, police said, Bussle held the couple and another man who was staying at the house, at knifepoint and threatened to kill them, which accounts for the kidnapping charge.

Bussle and his accomplices later fled but not before taking a large-screen television from the home, police said.

Court records showed Bussle's two accomplices were quickly arrested and subsequently convicted in the crime. Bussle got away.

Aware of the Ohio warrant and following the controlled drug buy, vice officers here moved in Wednesday on Bussle. They watched him get into the passenger side of a car, which drove away from the suspect's home and traveled south on Route 8.

A short time later, troopers stopped the car in Brady Township. Bussle gave a bogus name, using one of his known aliases, and a phony birth date, documents said.

A pat down search of Bussle turned up nine pills in a metal container in one of his pockets. He later admitted the pills were the narcotic pain reliever Percocet, for which he claimed he had a prescription.

Meanwhile, the driver of the car allowed the police to search the vehicle. Hidden in a storage compartment under the radio, the officers found a plastic bag. Inside were 15 pills.

Bussle acknowledged the pills were morphine that he had bought “on the street,” documents said.

During an interview he told investigators that before the traffic stop he was headed to a trailer park to meet a woman and deliver some of the morphine pills to her.

Police said he also admitted his plans for the Percocet.

“He indicated that he did trade them to people for Vicodin,” according to a police affidavit.

District Judge Kevin O'Donnell arraigned Bussle on two felony charges each of delivery of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

He also was arraigned on misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, as well as false identification to police.

Additionally, Bussle is charged with being a fugitive from justice stemming from the Ohio warrant.

The Portage County Sheriff's Office has notified state police that is plans to seek Bussle's extradition back to Ohio.