BUTLER TWP — A Butler man was allegedly high on heroin early this morning when he led police on a short chase that ended after he crashed into a curb, authorities said.

The suspect, 35-year-old Arthur A. Gillon III, ran from his wrecked car near a hotel on Route 8 south in Butler Township but he didn’t get far before giving up to police.

Gillon faces felony and misdemeanor charges in the chase that began on Hansen Avenue shortly after midnight when an officer spotted his 1997 Chrysler Concorde with its taillights out, police said.

The officer ran the suspect’s license plate and found that he was wanted on a bench warrant.

Gillon refused to stop and eventually drove south on Route 8 into Penn Township, authorities said. But he turned around apparently after seeing a Penn Township officer’s car positioned near Airport Road.

Butler Township police, in anticipation of the defendant’s car, now headed north on Route 8, laid down a spike strip on the road near Comfort Lane, which leads to the Comfort Inn.

The stop stick device possibly caused the suspect to veer off the road and into a curb at Comfort Lane.

He got out and ran. But he quit a short time later, police said, when officers warned that they were prepared to deploy one of Butler police’s K-9 officers to stop him.

Police said Gillon appeared impaired and he was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for a blood test. Toxicology results are pending.

A search of his car turned up suspected heroin and other drug contraband, police said.

Gillon is charged with a felony count of fleeing or attempting to elude police. He also is charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, drug possession, reckless endangerment, driving without lights to avoid identification and other traffic violations.

He was placed in Butler County Prison on the warrant.