Authorities are seeking a Butler man who escaped home detention by removing one electronic monitoring bracelet and a second alcohol monitoring bracelet last week.

Butler County detectives on Wednesday obtained an arrest warrant for 49-year-old John E. Hopkins, who is charged with escape and criminal mischief.

The suspect turned up missing Nov. 30 when the Butler County Probation Office learned that he had violated his probation.

County probation officers and Butler police went to Hopkins’ home in the 200 block of East Walnut Street, and discovered that he was gone, according to court documents.

“It appeared (the defendant) had taken some of his belongings and left,” Detective Tim Fennell said.

Inside a closet in the house, he said, officers found Hopkins’ electronic ankle bracelet and a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor device, both of which had been cut off.

The SCRAM device is a tamper-resistant — not tamper-proof — bracelet that a drunken driving offender wears around his or her ankle.

The 24-hour monitoring device measures blood-alcohol levels in a person’s sweat every hour or so. The monitoring company alerts probation authorities or police whenever a violation is detected.

Hopkins, who is an Ohio native, last month was ordered to wear the more traditional electronic bracelet stemming from a pending terroristic threats case that Butler police filed against him in May, court records showed.