Anthony Williams

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 seeking a fugitive wanted on three warrants about 11:45 a.m. Saturday when they went to the home at 313 Wagner Ave., authorities said.

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, prompting police to secure a felony arrest warrant. He was nabbed Tuesday night in Twinsburg, Ohio, and is being held in Summit County Jail while awaiting extradition back to Butler.

A man and woman were in the house but neither was hit by the gunfire.

Neither of the two people inside are tenants of the house, which had been under recent surveillance for suspected drug activity, said county Detective Tim Fennell, who leads the county Drug Task Force.

Butler police, however, have declined to discuss a motive in the shooting.

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 checked the basement but did not find Undercuffler. However, officers spotted a man, later identified as Williams, attempting to hide up in the crawl space behind a wall, according to court documents.

After a warning bark from the police K-9 officer, Williams gave himself up.

Later Butler Patrolman Jeremy Walters donned protective clothing and a dust mask and climbed into the crawl space to look for any contraband, police said.

The officer found a plastic bag containing 11 individual packages of suspected crack cocaine, documents said. The suspected 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.