The hunt continues for a house arrestee Butler County officials say cut off her electronic monitoring device two weeks ago and fled from her Butler apartment.

Kasey R. Dischman, 32, has been on the lam since Jan. 28 following an apparent risky getaway, according to Doug Ritson, chief county probation officer.

Authorities believe she jumped out of an upstairs window of her North Main Street home, landed on the roof of a burger joint next door and fled after a probation officer showed up for a routine house check.

“She has not been seen since,” Ritson said Wednesday.

Authorities recovered the discarded ankle bracelet on the Burger Hut roof.

But probation officials are not the only ones seeking the defendant. Butler County Judge William Shaffer on Tuesday issued two bench warrants for her after she failed to appear for status conferences in a pair of pending criminal cases.

One of those cases for which Dischman is awaiting trial captured statewide attention after prosecutors charged her with overdosing on heroin while pregnant.

Dischman is on pretrial supervision with electronic monitoring stemming from that case.

When her probation officer knocked on her door two weeks ago, he got no answer, authorities said.

The officer contacted MHY Family Services in Adams Township, which provides services for adult and juvenile offenders participating in the county's community monitoring program.

MHY checked and found nothing out of order. But moments later, the monitoring firm got an alert that the device had been tampered with, Ritson said.

The officer called Ritson, who advised him to contact the landlord, who arrived and opened the door. By then, Dischman was gone.

“We believe she went out the upstairs window,” Ritson said.”

There was no sign of the monitoring bracelet in the apartment.

Later that day, authorities said, MHY showed up with equipment and tracked down the device to the Burger Hut roof.

The next day, Dischman's attorney, public defender Joseph Smith, learned his client was on the run.

“At this point,” he said Wednesday, “her whereabouts are unknown.”

He urged her to call him.

“She knows where to contact me,” Smith said, “and I encourage her to contact me in any manner possible.”

He admitted he was unsure if Dischman would appear for a pretrial violation hearing set for Friday.

That hearing was initially scheduled for a series of other alleged house arrest violations, court records showed.

Those prior violations, 10 in all between Dec. 3 and Jan. 20, were for Dischman being at unauthorized locations while on pretrial supervision.

The case that led to her house arrest began June 22, 2017, when state police say she overdosed after injecting heroin at her then-East Butler home while seven months pregnant.

Dischman was flown to a hospital in Pittsburgh and subsequently placed on a ventilator after suffering cardiac arrest.

Later, she was transferred to another Pittsburgh hospital, where doctors performed an emergency Caesarean section.

The baby, a girl, survived but suffered “lasting injuries,” according to police and prosecutors.

Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger initially charged Dischman with aggravated assault, a felony, citing a 1998 amendment to Pennsylvania's Crimes Against the Unborn Child Act.

But her attorney, public defender Joseph Smith, mounted a legal challenge, arguing the law clearly states that a pregnant woman can't be charged with crimes against her unborn child.

Shaffer sided with Smith and dismissed that top count, leaving Dischman to face only misdemeanor charges of child endangerment, corruption of minors and possession of drug paraphernalia. The lesser charges, authorities said, were based on evidence that Dischman's then-8-year-old daughter also was at the defendant's home at the time of the overdose, and that a hypodermic needle was found there.

The DA's office later appealed Shaffer's decision to the state Superior Court, which upheld the lower court ruling.

Dischman in the other pending case is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia from August 2018.