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A Youngstown man who led police on a manhunt Jan. 19 and 20 through Oakland Township had three charges added before his Monday, Feb. 9, preliminary hearing was continued.

Jumal Alfred McQueen, 31, was initially charged Jan. 20 with felony burglary and criminal trespass and misdemeanor fleeing police, loitering and receiving stolen property.

At Monday’s hearing, state police and assistant district attorney Ben Simon added charges of felony controlled substance possession with intent to deliver and misdemeanor counts of controlled substance possession and drug paraphernalia possession based on the results of a search warrant executed on McQueen’s vehicle.

McQueen was apprehended Jan. 20 in Oakland Township after police said he fled from a traffic stop in Butler the night before.

Police said at 6:21 p.m. Jan. 19, officers attempted a traffic stop on McQueen’s white Hyundai Elantra on North Monroe Street for a broken tail light. McQueen instead turned onto Route 68 and accelerated past several vehicles attempting to evade police.

Police said McQueen then turned onto Fared Drive in Oakland Township and fled on foot into a wooded area. Police patrolled the area using both vehicles and helicopters.

According to police, they found the vehicle McQueen had allegedly abandoned and saw a cellphone inside. During the incident, police said family members of McQueen called the state police barracks in Butler Township and said his phone location was showing he was at the Butler barracks.

A resident living in the 200 block of Old East Butler Road later called police and said a man matching McQueen’s description knocked on her door asking for help. McQueen told the woman he ran out of gas and the resident gave him a phone to call for help then locked the door.

Police said McQueen attempted to open the locked door to the residence and asked the resident if she was calling 911 before he fled again.

The following day, just after 1 p.m., a Winfield Township resident in the 100 block of Davis Road called police and said he found a man matching McQueen’s description squatting in his enclosed porch. The resident said the man had run either into the nearby woods or a shed.

Police arrived shortly after and apprehended McQueen near another residence a short distance away. According to police, he was wearing a camouflage coverall suit, orange ball cap, yellow zip-up hoodie, a brown and camouflage coat and brown Carolina work boots that were taken from the enclosed porch.

Police said they later searched McQueen’s vehicle and found a plastic bag of suspected crack cocaine, a zipper pouch with suspected marijuana, a digital scale with white residue and two iPhones.

McQueen’s preliminary hearing has not yet been rescheduled. He’s being held in Butler County Prison on $300,000 bail.