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Man arrested at house where shooting occurred earlier

A Philadelphia man faces a hearing next week on felony drug charges after Butler police found him hiding in the crawl space of a city home that days earlier had been riddled with gunfire.

Anthony L. Williams. 25, is in the Butler County Prison on $100,000 bail.

City officers were assisting state police seek a fugitive wanted on three warrants Saturday when they went to the home at 313 Wagner Ave.

State police believed the wanted man, Chad Undercuffler, 23, of Fenelton, was staying in the basement of the rental house.

The same home on Nov. 17 had been shot with eight 9 mm rounds. The suspected gunman, Joshua McKenzie, 30, of Pittsburgh, fled and is sought on a felony arrest warrant.

The house had been under recent surveillance for suspected drug activity, said county Detective Tim Fennell, who leads the county Drug Task Force.

When officers got to the house Saturday, they were met by a man who allowed them inside to look for Undercuffler, who was wanted on an arrest warrant in a misdemeanor drug case and on two bench warrants stemming from unrelated theft and bad check cases.

Police spotted a man, later identified as Williams, attempting to hide up in the crawl space behind a wall, according to court documents.

Later police found in the crawl space a plastic bag containing 11 individual packages of suspected crack cocaine, documents said. The drugs weighed 4.6 grams.

A search of Williams turned up $1,080 in currency, documents said.

Williams is charged with felony and misdemeanor drug possession. His preliminary hearing is 2 p.m. Monday at the office of District Judge Pete Shaffer.

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