Three weeks on the lam has ended for a fugitive accused of forcing an ex-girlfriend into his car and dragging her by the vehicle as he drove away in Butler.

Slippery Rock police on Friday arrested Jesse James Eaton, 21, of Butler following an early morning traffic stop in the borough.

The stop was made just after 1 a.m. when an officer spotted a Ford Focus with both passenger side doors open, turn into the Sheetz store on Franklin Street.

Police said Eaton initially gave a bogus name before admitting his real identity. The officer searched him and found a pill bottle containing 58 tablets of the narcotic painkiller Tramadol, according to court documents,

The bottle did not have a prescription label on it. Eaton acknowledged the pills did not belong to him, police said.

Before long, police also learned that the suspect's license was suspended and that he was wanted by Butler police on an arrest warrant.

City police obtained that warrant July 8, three days after Eaton allegedly accosted Amanda J. McCune, 22, of Butler, a former girlfriend.

McCune told police that the defendant about 10 p.m. July 5 drove by her house, honking his car horn and calling for her.

Despite having a protection from abuse order against the suspect, she went outside, documents said.

Moments later, according to a police affidavit, Eaton pulled the victim “partially into the vehicle through the window.”

He drove off while holding McCune, who was being dragged down Garfield Avenue, police said. He eventually let go of her.

McCune ended up at Butler Memorial Hospital or treatment of relatively minor injuries. Eaton took off and remained at large until his arrest Friday.

He was arraigned on charges of aggravated assault and driving with a suspended license-DUI related in connection with the Butler case.

In the Slippery Rock case, he is charged with false identification to law enforcement, illegal possession of prescription medication, driving with unsafe equipment.

He is being held in the Butler County Prison on $25,000 bail as well as for probation violations.