Tip leads police to nab fugitive in Brady Twp.
BRADY TWP — The hunt for a Slippery Rock Township man wanted on felony assault charges and for eluding police is over.
State police Monday arrested 27-year-old Cody A. Isaacson at a relative's home on Buttercup Lane in Brady Township. He is being held in the Butler County Prison in lieu of $110,000 bond.
Troopers said they were called to the home for a report of a wanted man staying there. He was found at the home with his girlfriend, Ashley L. Anderson, 27, of Slippery Rock Township.
Police also arrested Anderson, charging her with a felony count of hindering apprehension or prosecution. She allegedly admitted to knowing Isaacson was wanted by police, investigators said.
District Judge Bill O'Donnell arraigned Anderson, who was later placed in the county prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Troopers earlier Monday had obtained a second arrest warrant for Isaacson. That warrant was issued after Anderson managed to elude capture Thursday in Prospect while police were looking for him on the first warrant.
He was accused in that first warrant of ramming his car into the side of his father's porch at the home they share. The elder Isaacson, who was on the porch. was not injured.
Police said they were called to Prospect shortly before 6 p.m. after someone reported seeing the suspect in a car at the Fairground Market parking lot on New Castle Road.
But when troopers got there, police said, he fled into the woods after seeing the officers' patrol vehicles. Police searched the area, but to no avail.
He is charged in that case with a felony count of flight to avoid apprehension and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.
On Sept. 22, police said, Isaacson got into an altercation with his 53-year-old father at their home on the 3400 block of Route 8, and allegedly punched the older man twice in the face and threw a candle at him.
Police said Isaacson subsequently got into his car and “rammed it into the side of the porch, causing damage to the porch while the (father) was still on the porch.”
He is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, intimidation of a witness or victim, criminal mischief and harassment.
The day before that incident, police said, Isaacson was involved in another clash with his father at their home.
Investigators accused him of threatening to beat up his father while holding a sledgehammer and pouring gasoline on him and chasing him around with a lighter.
He also allegedly got into his vehicle and attempted to run over his father while the older man was on a lawn mower. The father was apparently not injured.
The defendant is charged in that incident with simple assault, terroristic threats, reckless endangerment and harassment.
O'Donnell arraigned Isaacson on charges in all three cases. He also set the bond condition that if the defendant is released, he is not to have any contact with his father.
His preliminary hearings in the cases are set Oct. 9. Online court records did not list an attorney for him.
