A suspected armed home invasion in Butler “was all over $80,” an alleged victim testified Monday at a preliminary hearing.

The defendant, Hughie Scott, 54, of Butler, was looking to recoup money Sept. 28 that had been paid for drugs that were never received, according to testimony.

Before Butler police arrested Scott, Kimberly Logan said he sent her a threatening text message and pointed a handgun at her and her fiancé at their home on North Chestnut Street. No one was injured.

District Judge William Fullerton ordered Scott to be held for trial on charges of burglary, robbery, persons not to possess firearms, terroristic threats, possessing an instrument of crime, and simple assault.

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

Logan, 52, testified that earlier in the day Sept. 28, she had smoked crack cocaine. She also apparently had seen Scott and a woman friend of his.

“I recently relapsed,” Logan told prosecutor Laura Pitchford, a Butler County assistant district attorney, “and they gave me $80 and wanted me to see if I could find some crack cocaine for them. I told them I would try.”

But she apparently failed.

Later that night, she said she got a text from Scott “threatening me that he was going to be at my house.”

It wasn't long before he made good on that threat, she recounted.

Logan was upstairs in her bedroom when she “heard some hollering” downstairs. Then she heard “a bang and a thud.”

Logan's son, Tyler Smith, 37, who had been awakened by pounding at the door, had gone down the stairs from his attic bedroom at the home.

Soon afterward, he testified, the suspect broke in through the door and knocked him over. The man, who he did not know before that night, walked upstairs to his mother's room.

Smith said he heard Scott tell Logan, “If you don't give me my money, I'm going to pull the trigger.”

Immediately, Smith testified, he left the house and called 911.

“Mr. Scott come barging into my room and holding a gun up at me,” Logan testified.

She said he was “screaming and hollering, and I couldn't get a word in edgewise.”

Scott was yelling at her, “Where's my money?” He also called her “a liar,” she said.

He was holding the gun “toward my head,” she testified. She described the gun as “small” and “definitely a pistol.”

At one point, she said, Scott tried to put the gun in her mouth.

“I told him, 'I didn't have the money. I'll pay you back.' But he wouldn't listen to me,” Logan testified. “I said, 'Well, I can see if I can get it off my fiancé.' ”

She said she and the defendant went into her boyfriend's separate upstairs bedroom. There, she said, Scott pointed the gun at her and her fiancé.

During the incident, she recalled, the defendant pulled the trigger. The gun did not fire. Logan said she did not know if it jammed or if it was unloaded.

Logan also believed at some point Scott held something that felt like metal, possibly a knife, to her throat. She admitted that she didn't see the object.

She said Scott later apparently dropped or threw the gun on the floor before she and her fiancé and the defendant walked down the stairs.

Around that time, police arrived at the home. Capt. Ben Spangler testified the call to the house was for a “home invasion and a possible hostage situation.”

He said city officers, assisted by Butler Township police and state police, surrounded the home. Logan's fiancé walked out through the front door. She and Scott exited through a side basement door.

Spangler said the suspect was taken into custody. Police later searched the house and recovered a .22-caliber pistol that they believe belonged to the defendant.

The officer told Scott's attorney, public defender Kimberly Hudak, that no knife allegedly linked to the incident was found.

Police also combed Scott's criminal record, Spangler said, and it revealed “numerous felonies.”