A suspected robber remains jailed after allegedly stealing prescription drugs from a woman at gunpoint last week in Butler.

City police Thursday night arrested 26-year-old Robert Christopher James Best about six hours after the holdup at a West North Street apartment complex.

Best, who has no known address, is accused of accosting 20-year-old Sarah Fye of New Castle, who had accompanied her aunt to Butler on Thursday afternoon, police said.

While walking by herself around 2:30 p.m., Fye spotted Best outside the apartment building, according to a police report. She knows the suspect through his brother, who lives at the building.

She started talking to Best. Fye was carrying a hand purse which had numerous pills of the narcotic painkiller Roxicodone.

She had reportedly just filled her prescription earlier that morning.

Best apparently spotted the drugs in the purse, which is clear on one side, police noted. He demanded the pills.

“Fye thought Best was joking,” the police report said. He tried to grab the drugs but Fye pulled away.

“Best then pulled out a gun and pointed it at Fye’s head,” the report said.

The woman said she opened the purse and threw the pills at Best, who took off running.

Fye reported the incident about 20 minutes later.

Police about 9 p.m. found Best, who was arrested. However, officers did not find any gun on him. Best was arraigned on a charge of robbery and placed in the Butler County Prison on $5,000 bail.