Middletown police issued an arrest warrant for Brandon L. Davis on Tuesday for complicity to aggravated murder. The warrant was issued as a result of the ongoing investigation into the body found in a trash can in the alleyway behind 1005 Centennial Avenue.
The body was identified as Asiah Slone of Middletown.
Davis was arrested and booked into the Middletown City Jail early Friday, according to Sgt. Sam Allen.
Middletown Municipal Court Judge James Sherron set the bond at arraignment. Davis is scheduled to be back in court Sept. 13 for a preliminary hearing.
Perry Hart, 58, was arrested on Aug. 20 on an aggravated murder charge in connection with Slone’s death and indicted by a grand jury a week later for aggravated murder with a gun specification and a repeat violent offender specification; kidnapping; murder; and two counts of having weapons under disability.
Bond for Hart was set Thursday at $1.5 million during arraignment by Butler County Common Pleas Judge Michael Oster Jr.
Slone, 35, who had been reported missing in June, was identified by the the Butler County Coroner’s office through DNA testing two days after Hart’s arrest.
Butler County Prosecutor Mike Gmoser said last week from the evidence he viewed there appeared to be two bullet holes in the skull.
Gmoser told the Journal-News that officials believe Hart moved Slone while she was still alive.
The decomposed remains were found July 1 in the 1000 block of Centennial Street near Yankee Road.
On July 11, Hart was walking in the same area and was arrested by Middletown police for having weapons under disability when two guns were found in his backpack, according to police and court records.
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