A Butler man is accused of cutting off his electronic monitoring device and eluding capture for five days.

Butler County detectives Wednesday charged Raheem J. Robinson, 20, with escape, a second-degree felony.

The charge comes a week and two days after he turned up missing. He was arrested Saturday.

Robinson is being held in the Butler County Prison. Pat Cannon, the county’s chief detective, said the defendant would be arraigned Monday.

Butler County Juvenile Court Services officials were alerted shortly after 3 a.m. Nov. 7 that Robinson was no longer at his home in the 200 block of Morton Avenue.

A juvenile probation officer got to the house after 6 a.m. but could not find the suspect or the monitoring equipment.

Probation officers returned to the home and found the discarded electronic device in a neighbor’s yard, according to court documents.

Butler County detectives, who investigated the case, say Robinson was wearing the device while on house arrest stemming from his juvenile court disposition on charges of forgery, threatening to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to commit theft.

Authorities listed the suspect as missing in the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database.

Butler police at 5:41 a.m. Saturday nabbed Robinson without incident at an acquaintance’s apartment on Wallula Avenue.

City police Capt. Ronald Fierst said officers had been called there for a disturbance and found the defendant and other men in the apartment,.

Butler police, in an unrelated case, charged Robinson Sept. 22 with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. He is still awaiting a preliminary hearing in that case.