A Butler woman is jailed on charges she broke into a city apartment Monday evening and robbed another woman while wielding a knife.

The suspect, 47-year-old Betty May Claypool, made off with medication and cigarettes from the Third Avenue apartment but the alleged victim managed to wrestle away the knife, according to a police report.

No one was hurt and officers a short time later arrested Claypool just blocks away and near her Mercer Street home.

The defendant was arraigned on charges of robbery, burglary and trespass, and placed in the Butler County Prison on $15,000 bail.

Heather Grosskopf, 32, told police that she returned home about 6:30 p.m. and found a burglar inside her apartment in the 100 block of Third Avenue.

She said the intruder was armed with a knife and demanded Neurontin, a prescription anti-seizure drug commonly used as a painkiller.

She had earlier locked the apartment when she left and believed the suspect had forced open the door, the police report said.

Grosskopf said she was able to take the knife away from the burglar, who fled but not before taking several Neurontin pills and two packs of cigarettes, according to the report.

Officers fanned out to look for the suspect and spotted a woman walking on Mercer Street. The woman, police said, matched Grosskopf’s description of the burglar.

The suspect, identified as Claypool, while being taken to the police station made “unsolicited statements” admitting to the break-in, the report said.

However, police said, she claimed she was “only there to retrieve her medicine.”

Grosskopf later went to the station and identified Claypool as the burglar.

A preliminary hearing is set for 1 p.m. Monday.