A suspected drunken dirt biker is accused of leading Butler police on a high-speed chase without his lights on for several miles.

---- Zachary T. McDonnell, 24, of Middlesex Township was arrested shortly after 2:30 a.m. but not before traveling through three municipalities.

---- McDonnell is being held in the Butler County Prison on felony and other charges.

---- Butler police Sgt. Ben Spangler was on patrol about 2:20 a.m. when he spotted a dirt bike traveling southbound on Main Street without lights.

---- Moments earlier, Spangler learned that police in Butler and Penn townships were looking for the same bike, according to court documents.

---- The city officer activated his emergency lights and siren while chasing the biker, later identified as McDonnell, across the General Butler Bridge and onto Route 8 south.

---- The defendant traveled under the Picklegate bridge before turning into the main entrance at AK Steel. He made a U-turn and “grazed” the right rear side of Spangler’s cruiser, documents said.

---- McDonnell resumed his getaway try south on Route 8 at a “high rate of speed,” police said.

---- He traveled though Butler Township before finally pulling over on Route 8 across from Diehl Automotive in Penn Township.

---- Spangler said the suspect had a “strong odor” of alcohol coming from him. He was taken to the state police barracks in Butler for a breath test, which he refused.

---- District Judge Sue Haggerty later arraigned McDonnell on a felony charge of fleeing or attempting to elude police.

---- He also is charged with driving under the influence, driving at an unsafe speed, driving an unregistered and uninspected vehicle, driving without insurance and reckless driving.

---- He was placed in the Butler County Prison on $5,000 bail following arraignment.