VALENCIA — A man with an active warrant for charges including theft, receiving stolen property and forgery faces more charges after allegedly calling a detective and admitting he fled his house while officers were trying to arrest him.

Flight to avoid apprehension, trial or punishment, a third-degree felony, has been added to the laundry list of charges Brian Charles Frazin faces in Butler County. Police also previously had charged Frazin with forgery and identity theft.

The charges stem from an incident in which police said Frazin and a friend parked a red sedan in a lot before allegedly stealing a blue car from that lot. This led police to find the previous owner of the red sedan.

The owner of the red vehicle said he sold the car to Frazin via Craigslist and provided police with the phone number that Frazin, who allegedly identified himself as “Tom,” sent him.

When police called that number, “Tom” answered, and police informed him that he was accused of stealing a car, according to Officer Jason Giallorenzo's affidavit.

He then walked away from the phone and “checked his driveway and found that he did take the Nissan Sentra,” Giallorenzo's affidavit reads. “Tom” then allegedly said he would return the vehicle.

Shortly before “Tom” was supposed to return the vehicle, police said they called him and he identified himself as Frazin.

When the vehicle was returned to the parking lot, however, Frazin was nowhere to be seen, according to the affidavit.

Police asked the driver of the car for the title, which is where police said the defendant got the name “Tom” — it was the first name of the notary who signed the title.

But police said the notary did not sign the car's title and instead an allegedly fraudulent stamp and signature appeared on the paper.

Charges against Frazin for the incident were issued Aug. 5. When police went to his house to execute an arrest warrant on Aug. 14, they were unable to find him, according to Detective Michael Bailey's affidavit. Frazin allegedly told two officers he had left by the time officers arrived, police said.

But according to Bailey's affidavit, the detective checked his voice mail on Aug. 19 and heard a message from Frazin in which he said he left his house by the back door when he saw officers outside because he didn't want to be arrested.

“This message was received while multiple officers from multiple agencies were actively trying to arrest Frazin at his residence,” the affidavit reads.

Court records indicate Frazin is not in custody. A phone call to him went to voicemail and was not immediately returned.