A felon who operated a marijuana grow house in Butler has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison on drug trafficking charges.

Along with more than 150 marijuana plants, Butler police last year seized more than 100 bags of heroin as well as crack cocaine from James V. Pryor’s home in the 100 block of West Brady Street.

Butler County Judge Tim McCune on Tuesday sentenced Pryor, 38, to 6 to 20 years in state prison in the drug-dealing case.

Pryor on April 12 pleaded guilty to three counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, and a charge of resisting arrest.

Among his prior convictions in an extensive criminal record that encompasses three counties are two felonies for assault and trespass in Westmoreland County in 2002.

Butler police had their own felony warrant for Pryor last year when they discovered his drug cache. Officers had been looking for the suspect in connection with a 2011 robbery case that was eventually dismissed.

Police found Pryor at his apartment on West Brady Street on May 5, 2012. Once in the home, police said they noticed several marijuana plants near a grow lamp in the living room.

He was arrested and handcuffed, but as officers led Pryor from his apartment, he took off running.

Despite having his hands cuffed behind his back, according to court documents, he ran north onto North Main Street, cutting through several buildings before losing his balance on North Washington Street.

That fall enabled officers to capture him.

Police later obtained a search warrant for his apartment. In the home’s main room were marijuana plants, growing equipment and materials, packaged marijuana, cocaine and other drug contraband, police said.

Inside the kitchen, officers found more marijuana plants, documents said. In a closet were 104 bags of heroin.

In all, officers seized 153 marijuana plants, mostly starter types.

Meanwhile, Pryor on Tuesday also was resentenced in two unrelated cases stemming from separate probation violations.

In one of those cases, Pryor was convicted in the 2010 attack of his then girlfriend during an argument at their Butler home. He admitted he bit the woman, dragged her out of the house and threatened to kill her, documents said.

Pryor pleaded guilty to terroristic threats and simple assault, and was originally sentenced in October 2010 to 6 to 12 months in the county jail.

In the other case for which he was resentenced Tuesday, Pryor in 2009 teamed up with an accomplice to steal a man’s watch off the victim’s wrist as he walked down a Butler street.

Pryor pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft and was given a year of probation.