Amanda Brommer

A Butler County woman has been jailed on charges she bought a handgun for a multiple felon.

Six weeks after the pistol was purchased, state police by chance seized it while searching a Butler apartment for evidence of drug trafficking in 2016.

Amanda R. Brommer, 39, who has a last-known address of Lyndora, faces a hearing in April in the straw buyer case. State police arrested her last month.

Police said Brommer on April 14, 2016, bought a Bond Arms Texas Defender double-barrel pocket pistol at a Washington Township gun store.

On her application, according to court documents, she denied being a drug user and claimed she was buying the gun for herself.

Troopers on May 27, 2016, went to an apartment in the 1000 block of East Jefferson Street in Butler, where they served a search warrant as part of a burglary investigation. During the search, according to court documents, police suspected drug dealing was going on at the apartment.

Police obtained a second search warrant that allowed them to look for evidence of drug trafficking.

Among the items seized were 407 stamp bags of suspected heroin, five bags of powder cocaine, eight bags of crack cocaine, pills, a digital scale, $5,957 in currency and a Bond Arms Texas Defender pistol.

Hasan “Red” Shareef, 41, who investigators believe had been staying at the apartment, was found there and arrested on felony charges of drug trafficking, drug possession and illegal firearms possession.

Because of his extensive criminal record, which includes three drug felony convictions in Pennsylvania, Shareef is barred under state law from having firearms.

He remains in Butler County Prison while awaiting trial.

Brommer recently joined Shareef behind bars after investigators traced back to her the pistol they seized from the Butler apartment in 2016.

Police on Feb. 26 interviewed Brommer at the barracks and questioned her about her alleged connection to that gun.

She eventually admitted that she bought it for “Red” and that he had given her cash to buy it.

“She also admitted that she was an active user of crack,” according to a police affidavit, “during the time of (the) purchase.”

Brommer was arraigned Feb. 28 on a charge of making a false written statement to acquire a firearm, a third-degree felony, and jailed on $75,000 bail.

Her preliminary hearing is set April 17 at the office of District Judge Lewis Stoughton in Chicora.