Burglary, drug possession and other charges state police filed against an Ohio man following a chase from Butler into Oakland Township in January were held for Butler County Common Pleas Court following a preliminary hearing on Monday, March 2.

District Judge William Fullerton ordered all charges against Jumal A. McQueen, of Youngstown, held for court after two troopers and two witnesses testified during the hearing.

McQueen is facing felony charges of burglary, possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, and criminal trespass; and misdemeanor charges of fleeing from police, loitering and prowling at night, receiving stolen property, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia; and a summary traffic charge for malfunctioning rear lights.

He is being held in the county jail in lieu of $300,000 bail.

Trooper Nicholas Dahlstrom testified that on Jan. 19 at 6:12 p.m. he was assisting a vice unit detail on South Main Street in Butler when he saw a white Hyundai with an Ohio license plate pull out of the area.

He said he located the car on South Monroe Street and tried to conduct a traffic stop on East Brady Street because a rear brake light and a license plate light were not working, but the car fled. The car went through three intersections without stopping at stop signs, he said.

The car traveled at a high rate of speed through two red traffic signals and passed other vehicles before entering Route 68, where it passed vehicles in a no passing zone, Dahlstrom said.

The car then turned onto Fared Drive in Oakland Township, where it stopped in front of a house. The driver got out, left the car door open and fled into a wooded area, he said. After a brief search was called off, Dahlstom said he saw drugs in plain view on the driver’s side floor of the car.

After the car was towed to state police barracks, he said he received a radio call about a Davis Road resident finding a man in his enclosed porch before a helicopter spotted the man running to another house on Davis Road, where he was taken into custody, Dahlstrom said.

The resident said he approached the man and his face was covered and he was wearing camouflage clothing, which he later discovered belong to his grandson, who left them on the porch.

He said he told the man to leave and called 911. He said he didn’t see the man’s face.

An Old East Butler Road resident testified that a man, whom she identified as McQueen, knocked on her door around 6:30 p.m. Jan. 19 and said he ran out of gas. She said she handed McQueen her phone, closed the door and called her husband.

She said her son went to the door and McQueen told him he was sick and needed help before she closed the door again, but the door handle started rattling. She said McQueen ran off and she later found her phone on the porch.

Trooper Brock Nardozzi said he executed a search warrant on the car McQueen was driving and found suspected crack cocaine on the car floor, a zippered pouch containing suspected marijuana in the console and a digital scale. He said the car is not registered to McQueen.