A Butler jury on Monday found Hasan Shareef, 42, of Butler guilty of possessing firearms, which he is prohibited from doing as a felon.

Shareef routinely punctuated the one-day trial with exclamations of “objection” and often had his hand up, calling to Judge Timothy F. McCune. At one point he said, “Your honor, I can’t go along with this trial.”

He continued, “Please, your honor, please.”

“I will tell you, we are going to have an orderly proceeding here,” McCune had said earlier in the trial. Responding to Shareef, he said, “Are you going to continue to interrupt?”

Shareef relented at that point, but after becoming frustrated with his lawyer, Armand Cingolani, he “fired” him after lunch and questioned a witness on the stand, prompting a steady chorus of objections from assistant district attorney Terri Schultz.

Shareef’s court appearances over the years have all been marked with similar behavior, according to previous reports in the Butler Eagle.

Shareef’s trial came after his arrest on May 27, 2016, when state police stumbled upon him while executing a search warrant at a home in the 1000 block of East Jefferson Street, in an unrelated burglary investigation. At the apartment police found two handguns and later charged Shareef with possessing them.

Shareef, who is also facing multiple felony drug charges in connection with his 2016 arrest, has been convicted of felonies in multiple states — including Pennsylvania, where online court records show he has pleaded guilty to felony drug charges in multiple cases from 2006. As a felon Shareef is legally barred from owning a gun.

The defendant, whose family is from Yonkers, N.Y., apparently had been staying at the house, which was being occupied by a woman, authorities said.

In Cingolani’s opening statement Monday he characterised the case as a “black box” and continued, “but you don’t see inside the black box, none of us were there.”

He argued that just because Shareef was in a house with guns — as well as money and drugs — it didn’t mean the weapons belonged to him.

“If there are drugs, money and guns, it doesn’t mean that it’s his stuff,” Cingolani said. “Coincidence and accident are not causation.”

Schultz first called Trooper Brian Palko to the stand, who testified that he was one of the first troopers to encounter Shareef at the Franklin apartment.

Palko testified that when he and other troopers entered the home, it was quiet until they heard “the sound of breaking glass,” coming from the attic.

When he made his way upstairs, Palko said, he spotted a handgun at the top of the steps. Then he spotted a second pistol, as well as Shareef, whose hands were bloody.

Palko said they found $2,570 in Shareef’s possession. The apartment was not under Shareef’s name but Palko said he was the only person inside at the time troopers served the search warrant.

On the floor of the attic, Palko testified, troopers noticed what looked like an empty stamp bag of heroin and two cell phones.

They then obtained another search warrant that allowed troopers to look through the home for any evidence suggesting drug trafficking.

In a previous court appearance Palko listed the items police seized: 407 stamp bags of suspected heroin, five bags of powder cocaine, seven bags of crack cocaine, 14 opened suboxone strips and prescription pills, a digital scale and $5,957 along with the two guns.

The two guns had traces of DNA belonging to several people, including Shareef, according to the testimony of Joseph Kukovsky, a forensic DNA scientist who works for the state police.

Schultz called Kukovsky to the stand. He explained that one of the guns had a “mixture” of DNA from two people. Only one of the people could be identified because there was not enough DNA from the other person for identification. The identifiable DNA matched Shareef’s, Kukovsky testified Monday.

The other gun had DNA from at least three people but, like the first weapon, there was only enough DNA for one to be identified. Once again, Kukovsky testified, it matched Shareef’s.

Kukovsky was dismissed, though Shareef objected and said he wanted “to have a word and share my side of the story.”

Shareef failed to appear in court earlier this year for a non-jury trial, triggering a manhunt for him. Authorities ultimately found him in a drug treatment facility in Pittsburgh.

The jury deliberated for about half an hour before returning a unanimous guilty verdict, finding Shareef guilty of a single count of possession of firearm prohibited, which is a second degree felony.

McCune said sentencing would be set for a later date.