An alleged armed robber is behind bars on charges he pointed a handgun at two people during a weekend home invasion in Butler.

At least some of the incident was picked up by a 911 dispatcher on an open line in the home, authorities said.

Hughie Scott, 54, of Butler, was arrested by city police with help from state police and Butler Township at the house on North Chestnut Street where the alleged home invasion took place. Scott was arrested shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday. No one was injured.

Scott, a felon, was later arraigned on charges of burglary, robbery, persons not to possess firearms, terroristic threats, possessing an instrument of crime and simple assault.

He is in the Butler County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.

A call for a home invasion with a possible hostage situation sent officers to the home. Police spoke to one of the victims, Tyler Smith, 37, who was outside the house.

He reported that a man had broken in, knocked him over and went to his mother's bedroom.

Police said Smith lives at the house with his 52-year-old mother and a 62-year-old man. Police did not know the relationship between the woman and older man.

Smith said his mother and the man were upstairs and he could “hear the (suspect) demand money from his mother or he would kill her,” police said.

One of the alleged victims on the 911 call open line reported seeing a gun, according to an affidavit by police Capt. Ben Spangler.

Police from the city and township and state police set up a perimeter around the house. Minutes later, the older man came out the front door.

Around that same time, police saw Smith's mother and a man, later identified as Scott, standing behind her near a basement window. Police ordered both of them outside.

The suspect came out a side basement door and was arrested.

The woman came out the same door. She was described as being “visibly shaken and very emotional.”

She and the older man told police that Scott had broken into their home and pointed a gun at them, authorities said.

The woman recounted that the suspect had entered her bedroom and pointed the gun at her, police said, telling her “he was going to kill her if he did not get his $80.”

Additionally, she allegedly told police that Scott “punched (her) in the face and put the pistol in her mouth, stating that she was a dead woman.”

She alleged he also took her into the older man's bedroom and pointed the gun at him. The suspect also put a knife to her throat, the woman alleged.

At one point, she told police, Scott pulled the trigger. But she believed the gun jammed. The gun was described as a .22-caliber revolver.

Police subsequently found a .22-caliber revolver in an upstairs clothes hamper where at least one of the victims alleged the suspect had thrown it before coming out of the house. The gun was not loaded.

A knife was not recovered, police said. The woman reported that she believed the Scott hid it or threw it somewhere. Police noted that Scott was wearing an empty sheath for a fixed-blade knife when they arrested him.

He later waived his Miranda rights and spoke to police.

“He admitted to being at the residence with a firearm,” Spangler's affidavit said, “but stated that he was there to collect $80 from (the woman) and that she let him in the residence.”

Additionally, the document said, “he denied pointing the firearm at anyone and stated that (the woman) took his knife, and he suffered a cut to his left palm when he went to try and take it back.” Police said he had a cut on the hand.

City police, meanwhile, took Smith into custody on two unrelated arrest warrants — one a forgery case filed by state police and the other a drug paraphernalia case filed by city police. He later was released on unsecured bond.