Authorities again searching for man on the lam
A Butler man is back on the lam — just weeks after he managed to escape a constable while handcuffed.
The target of the manhunt, 27-year-old Bradley S. Cramer, is accused of fleeing the Butler County Courthouse last week rather than attend hearings for allegedly violating a woman's protective order against him.
The county sheriff's office is looking for him on a bench warrant.
Butler County detectives Tuesday obtained an arrest warrant for Cramer on new charges for sending numerous text messages and making repeated telephone calls to his ex-girlfriend, Haley Dunbar.
Dunbar has a protection from abuse order that bars Cramer from having any contact with her, according to court documents.
But the day after he got out of jail, detectives said, he was back hounding Dunbar.
In only a 70-minute span June 10, Cramer made 71 texts and 49 phone calls to the victim, documents said.
Butler police responded by filing their own PFA violation against him.
He sent her more than 60 Facebook messages, investigators said, and started driving by and standing outside her house.
Bench warrants for the suspect were issued after he failed to appear for court hearings in connection with the two PFA violations.
This is the second time in two months that law enforcement authorities have gone hunting for Cramer.
On May 24, he became an at-large suspect after dashing from District Judge Kevin O'Donnell's office at the Sunnyview complex in Butler Township.
Cramer bolted out three doors while the constable was talking to a court official and headed toward the 911 center with his hands behind his back in cuffs.
It would take about two hours before township and city police found him hiding at his grandmother's house on nearby Center Avenue in Butler. By then he had managed to work his cuffed hands from his back to his front.
He was charged with a pair of misdemeanors in the escape. He eventually pleaded down to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
He was ordered to pay $606 in fines and court costs, and released from prison June 9.
