While police were investigating an armed robbery inside an apartment complex on Roosevelt Boulevard, they found four people allegedly cooking and using heroin with two sleeping children nearby.

Police were called at 9:13 p.m. Thursday to the 4400 block of Roosevelt Boulevard after two Warren County men attempted to sell five iPhones. The two men met Louis Lebow, who one of the two men said he knew. They did not want to go inside the apartment, but Lebow told them, according to the report, “it was not big deal, that they would not rob them.”

However, the two men were robbed, said Middletown police Lt. Scott Reeve.

The two men were led to a bedroom where two people came from behind a set of curtains, one with a knife and one with what was believed to be a long gun (which Reeve said it turned out to be a stick with duct tape).

“They were roughed up,” Reeve said of the robbery victims. “They were terrified.”

Police arrested Louis Lebow, 23, as well as Aaron Lebow, 26, and Josh Frame, 27, on suspicion of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony. Louis Lebow was also charged with possession of drug abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia; Frame was also charged with drug abuse.

All three were arraigned in Middletown Municipal Court last week and will have their preliminary hearings at 1:30 p.m. Friday.

Officers said while searching a neighboring apartment, they found four people, including Aaron Lebow and Frame, allegedly cooking, preparing and using heroin.

Josh and Krystina Brewer, both 20 and of Middletown, were arrested and charged with child endangering and permitting drug abuse. Both are first-degree misdemeanors.

Butler County Children Services removed two girls, ages 2 and 1, from their parents, Josh and Krystina Brewer, according to the police report. They were sleeping in the second apartment where the four were allegedly cooking and using heroin. Custody of the girls was given to their grandparents, and the Brewers were not permitted at the time to have contact with them.

Josh Brewer is set for a pre-trial hearing at 1:30 p.m. Friday. Krystina Brewer had her case heard on Friday and found guilty on both charges, sentenced to 180 days in jail but the fined $600. However, her sentence and fines will be suspended if she completes a drug program at Sojourner Recovery Services.