A suspected machete-wielding robber and two alleged accomplices were arrested Monday morning after luring a woman to a Butler apartment, city police said.

The alleged victim ended up at Butler Memorial Hospital with cuts to her neck and hand, and other injuries. She also had more than $200 stolen out of her bra.

Butler police nabbed the suspects even before the crime was reported, following a traffic stop in connection with an unrelated investigation.

Charged in connection with the alleged armed holdup were Tiffany Ann Crawford, 31, Michelle L. Kaiser, 46, and Anthony F. Perez, 40, all of Butler. They are all being held in the Butler County Prison.

Kaiser is accused of calling 28-year-old Tiffany Mullen of Butler and asking her to come to her second-story apartment on West Wayne Street, police said.

Mullen apparently believed that she was going there to pick up the television set that she had loaned. But once she entered the apartment, according to court documents, she realized it was a setup.

She recounted that “all of a sudden there was a machete up against her throat,” a police affidavit said. Crawford allegedly had the machete.

Mullen grabbed at the machete, pulling it away from her neck, police said. She told investigators that while being dragged from the hallway to the bathroom, Crawford continued to hold the machete to her neck.

Crawford is accused of removing $210 that Mullen had stuffed in her bra.

During the struggle, police said, Mullen suffered a cut to her throat, cuts to her left thumb and middle finger, and bruises on her right side.

“She was bleeding a lot,” police Lt. Chad Rensel said of Mullen.

The three defendants fled but officers moments later stopped their pickup truck as part of an ongoing burglary investigation.

Police while speaking to the trio, noticed a machete in the back seat. Officers removed it for their own safety.

It was only then, Rensel said, that a call on the police radio identified the defendants as being wanted for the robbery that had just happened.

“I thought, 'You got to be kidding me?'” Rensel said of the coincidence.

Crawford was arraigned on felony charges of robbery, aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, simple assault and possession of a prohibited offensive weapon. She is in the county prison on $100,000 bail.

Kaiser was arraigned on charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and criminal use of a communication facility, both felonies. She is locked up on $45,000 bail.

Perez was arraigned on a charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, and placed behind bars on $20,000 bail.