Shaquill O'Neal Bell

Butler police chased down an Allegheny County man Monday afternoon who ran from an apartment on East Locust Street where county probation officers had gone for a compliance check.

The capture paid off.

Police said they found the suspect — Shaquill O'Neal Bell, 23, of East McKeesport — carrying $600 in currency.

But that was just part of the haul.

Police later found a shopping bag stuffed with more than 200 stamp bags of suspected heroin that Bell had thrown away in his failed getaway, according to court documents.

Back at the house, police said, officers seized more than 100 additional bags of heroin and several grams of crack cocaine.

Bell is being held in the Butler County Prison on $100,000 bail. He faces felony and other drug charges stemming from his arrest.

Three probation officers had gone to the apartment in the 400 block of East Locust Street to check on two probationers about 2:20 p.m. when they saw an unknown man try to climb out two different windows, according to court documents.

The suspect, later identified as Bell, eventually managed to run out the front door. The officers alerted police and gave chase.

One of the pursuing probation officers told police that he saw Bell throw something under the front porch of a home on St. Mary's Street.

Police Detective Nathan Shulik a short time later spotted the defendant, who jumped over a fence. Shulik nabbed the suspect in a yard on Rattigan Street, police said.

A search of Bell turned up a small amount of suspected marijuana, documents said, and $600 in cash.

Authorities recovered the shopping bag that the defendant allegedly discarded and found 206 glassine bags of suspected heroin. Police said the bags were packaged in bundles of 10.

County Detective Tim Fennell, who heads the Butler County Drug Task Force, assisted at the apartment and seized 120 stamp bags of suspected heroin and 6 grams of suspected crack.

The heroin, Fennell said, was found in a plastic bag that was below one of the windows Bell initially had tried to use in his getaway. The crack was found on the couch near the front door.

All those drugs have been linked to Bell and neither of the residents who live there. The two residents, however, were arrested and placed in the county prison in part for allowing the drugs in the apartment, authorities said.

Bell was arraigned on two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count each of possession of a controlled substance, possession of a small amount of marijuana and resisting arrest.