A Butler couple is jailed on charges they were dealing marijuana out of their home where two young children also lived.

The Butler County Drug Task Force on Friday arrested Shawn Johns, 39, and Nora Miller, 25, on drug trafficking and other charges.

“They were volume dealers,” Pat Cannon, who heads the task force, said of the suspects this morning.

A tip that reported drug activity at the suspects’ Second Avenue apartment launched the task force investigation in October.

Officers conducted a controlled buy that did not need the usual planning.

“The buy was made without a prior telephone call,” Cannon said, “because the marijuana sales (at the home) were apparently routine.”

Officers later made a second buy and on Friday obtained a search warrant.

Johns and Miller were both home as were Miller’s two children, authorities said.

Butler County Children and Youth Services officials were called and took custody of the two children.

Officers found in the apartment individually wrapped marijuana, more than $500, a small scale and other contraband, according to court documents.

District Judge Lewis Stoughton arraigned the defendants on charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, both felonies.

Johns and Miller also are charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and child endangerment, all misdemeanors.

Both suspects are in the Butler County Prison on $30,000 bail each.