Butler man, 27, again wanted by authorities
A Butler man is back on the lam — just weeks after he managed to escape a constable while handcuffed.
The target of the manhunt, 27-year-old Bradley S. Cramer, is accused of fleeing the Butler County Courthouse last week rather than attend hearings for allegedly violating a woman’s protective order against him.
The county sheriff’s office is looking for him on a bench warrant.
Butler County detectives Tuesday also obtained an arrest warrant for Cramer on new charges for sending numerous text messages and making repeated telephone calls to his ex-girlfriend, Haley Dunbar.
The 19-year-old Dunbar on April 12 obtained a protection from abuse order that legally bars Cramer from having any contact with her, according to court documents.
But on June 7 and 8, while the defendant was in the Butler County Prison on unrelated charges, he used another inmate’s account to make two phone calls to Dunbar.
County authorities charged him with indirect criminal contempt for the alleged PFA violation.
But the day after he got out of jail, detectives said, he was back hounding Dunbar.
In only a 70-minute span June 10, Cramer made 71 texts and 49 phone calls to the victim, documents said.
Butler police responded by filing their own PFA violation against him.
Cramer, however, continued his quest to contact Dunbar. He sent her more than 60 Facebook messages, investigators said, and started driving by and standing outside her house.
Bench warrants for the suspect were issued after he failed to appear for court hearings in connection with the two PFA violations.
Meanwhile, because of the repeated violations, said county Detective Charles Barger, the victim moved from her home in the city and changed her phone number in a bid to get away from Cramer.
Barger, in the latest case, charged Cramer on Tuesday with stalking and harassment. Local police departments and sheriff’s deputies have joined in searching for the defendant.
“We think he’s around town somewhere,” Barger said Wednesday.
This is the second time in two months that law enforcement authorities have gone hunting for Cramer.
On May 24, he became an at-large suspect after dashing from the lobby of District Judge Kevin O’Donnell’s office at the Sunnyview complex in Butler Township.
A state constable earlier in the day had picked him up on warrants for failing to pay fines in two summary cases — one for disorderly conduct and the other for criminal mischief.
Cramer just before 10 a.m. bolted out three doors, while the constable was talking to a court official, and ran away with his hands behind his back in cuffs.
It would take about two hours before township and city police found him hiding at his grandmother’s house on nearby Center Avenue in Butler. By then he had managed to work his cuffed hands from his back to his front.
He was charged with a pair of misdemeanors in the escape. He eventually pleaded down to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
He was ordered to pay $606 in fines and court costs, and was released from prison June 9.