Prosecutors Monday withdrew a felony charge against a convicted drug dealer accused of attacking two women — abducting one of them — walking on a Butler street earlier this year.

But while Norman Lee Davis, 28, of Pittsburgh no longer is charged with kidnapping in Butler County, he faces other unrelated charges in Allegheny County.

“I don’t believe this was a straight kidnapping,” said Mark Lope, a Butler County assistant district attorney, in explaining the decision to drop the most serious charges against the defendant.

“There’s more to it than meets the eye.”

Lope stopped short of calling into question the credibility of the alleged victims, both subsequently arrested on heroin trafficking charges following a county wide drug sweep this month.

Davis was arrested Jan. 16 after city police accused him of forcing Anna L. Frobe into his car on Ninth Avenue. Police said she eventually was able to get away and was not injured.

Frobe, 27, of Butler told police she was walking with a friend, 31-year-old Carrie L. Meier of Butler, when an unknown man drove by them and stopped his car, according to court documents.

The suspect stopped his car, got out and punched her friend in the face before he grabbed her, Frobe recounted.

She said she tried numerous times to unlock the door but her abductor “kept pushing the power lock button preventing her from unlocking the door,” a police affidavit said.

She was able to escape from the car at East Jefferson and North McKean streets.

Davis was scheduled to have his preliminary hearing on a felony kidnapping charge as well as misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint and simple assault and a traffic violation for driving with a suspended license.

Instead, he waived his hearing after all but the simple assault and suspended driving charges were withdrawn.

“There’s more to the whole situation that led to those charges being dropped,” said Davis’ attorney Owen Seman of Pittsburgh. “There was not much basis for the kidnapping and unlawful restraint charges.”

Neither Seman nor Lope would elaborate on their discussions Monday. However, both said they believe Frobe and Meier knew Davis before Jan. 16.

The women initially told investigators they did not know the suspect.

Meanwhile, Frobe and Meier were identified as suspects in a Butler County Drug Task Force sweep this month that targeted alleged street-level dealers.

Investigators said both women sold four stamp bags of heroin Oct. 11 in Butler.

Frobe and Meier turned themselves in to authorities March 6 and were placed in the Butler County Prison on $25,000 and $50,000 bail, respectively.

On March 10, they waived their preliminary hearings on drug trafficking and other charges.

Meier remains jailed. But following a bail reduction hearing Friday in county court, Frobe was released on her own recognizance.

After Monday’s court proceeding, District Judge Pete Shaffer also granted Davis a recognizance bond in his case here. He had been in the county prison on $30,000 bail since his arrest.

But Allegheny County authorities previously placed a detainer on Davis, who is wanted on a bench warrant for a parole violation stemming from a 2012 drug dealing conviction.

Pittsburgh police also have two arrest warrants for Davis in connection with separate simple assault cases Jan. 5 and Dec. 1.