Free Republic

A Wayne County homeowner shot an killed one of three people who broke into his home early Friday, authorities said. Three armed men broke into the home at 2546 Old Mount Olive Highway at about 12:30 a.m. while the family slept inside. The intruders held two adults and four children, ages 4, 5 and 8, at gunpoint and ransacked the house, authorities said. During the robbery, one of the suspects fired a shot, prompting the man who lives in the house to grab a gun and shoot back, authorities said. Antione Logan Chestnut, 19, of 109 Evelyn Circle in Dudley,...

Two killed in New Orleans home invasion NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The slaying of two members of a family and wounding of another five is the latest in a spike in home invasion attacks in New Orleans. Seven relatives had been meeting at a home in the city's Village de l'Est neighborhood Friday when gunmen forced their way inside, robbed them and then opened fire without warning, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Sunday. A man in his late 20s and a woman in her late 30s sustained fatal wounds, making the incident the second double-homicide in the area...

<p>Resident reports 14-year-old with gun kicked in door, opened fire, and homowner shot back.</p> <p>PINE BLUFF — A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed Thursday night by a man who told police the teenager broke into his home and started shooting.</p>

CHESHIRE - Police have identified a 26-year-old Cheshire man and a 44-year-old Winsted man, both with long criminal histories, as suspects in a horrific home invasion in which a mother and her two daughters died Monday.

No guns please, we're liberals . . . As soon as today's "Good Morning America" began to tease an upcoming how-to segment on protecting against home invasion, I immediately suspected the show wouldn't discuss one obvious measure: obtaining fireams and learning how to use them. And sure enough . . . GMA ran the segment in the wake of the horrific home-invasion in Connecticut in which the the wife and two daughters of a prominent doctor were killed and the man badly beaten. An expert was brought in to discuss various measures, and Chris Cuomo added some suggestions of his...

CHESHIRE, Conn. — Three people were killed after thieves broke into their home, held them hostage for several hours and ultimately set the house ablaze before being nabbed by police while trying to flee the scene.. Connecticut State Police said in a statement issued Monday that officers went to the residence after bank officials notified them of a "suspicious withdrawal."

Woman finds intruder on her toilet July 13, 2007 - 10:40PM An elderly American woman who stepped out to buy a newspaper returned home to find an intruder had made himself comfortable - on her toilet. The man apparently cut a screen and unlocked a door after the woman, in her 80s, went out, police said. She had noticed the man outside when she went out, they said. On her return, she noticed the bathroom door was closed. When she opened the door, she saw him perched on the toilet. "How long are you going to be?" she asked. When...

HAGERSTOWN - A 32-year-old Hagerstown man is dead and a 21-year-old man faces 18 charges after an apparent attempted robbery early Sunday at Youngstoun Court turned violent, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's deputies were called to an apartment on Youngstoun Court shortly after 3:30 a.m. Sunday for a report of a shooting, according to a news release. Deputies found James Michael Conely, of 329 Central Ave., dead in a bedroom, allegedly shot and stabbed by one of the apartment's residents during a struggle. Michael John Watkins, of 42 East Ave., has been charged with first-, third- and...

Cop Holding Baby Kills Home Invader June 22, 2007 HAYWARD – An off-duty police officer was holding his infant son when he shot and killed a man who forced his way into his parents' home, authorities said. The rookie San Leandro officer was at his parents' house in Hayward when a man fleeing police knocked on the door Wednesday afternoon. The suspect, accompanied by a woman, stormed into the home and got into a fight with the officer. Holding his 7-month-old baby, the officer shot the man, who later was pronounced dead at a hospital. The baby suffered bruises. The...

Chef held at gunpoint in employment dispute NZPA| Wednesday, 13 June 2007 Police are hunting for at least four people, after a man was kidnapped at gunpoint and held in an Auckland home over an employment dispute. The man is hospital with two broken ankles after falling from a balcony in a bid to escape his 11-hour ordeal, The New Zealand Herald reported today. The injured man was reported to be one of two men allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint from their Whangaparaoa home by a group of up to eight men on Sunday night. That evening the two alleged victims...

LA CIENEGA, N.M. -- Santa Fe County Sheriff's deputies are looking for two men who forced their way into a home. Deputies said the men showed up at the front door of a home in La Cienega on Monday afternoon, Action 7 News reported. Witnesses told deputies that the men only spoke Spanish and asked if there was any money in the house. Deputies told Action 7 News the men then forced their way into the home occupied by two 13-year-old girls and a 20-year-old woman. Deputies said the men tied all three up while they searched the house. At...

A draft bill allowing landlords to attack, even kill, intruders passes first reading in Knesset, causing split between opponents and supporters Tsvika Brot Published: 02.15.07, 14:21 / Israel News A new draft bill proposing that landlords who take physical action against intruders onto their property be acquitted of prosecution under the pretext of self-defense passed a first reading in the Knesset on Wednesday. Inspired by the ordeal of a southern farmer who shot and killed a burglar he caught on his farm last month, former Agriculture Minister and Likud MK Yisrael Katz described his draft bill as "revolutionary." "This is...

NASHVILLE - A woman who is nine months pregnant was robbed and attacked in a violent home invasion Sunday night. Officials said three armed robbers surprised the woman and several other victims outside a home near McGavock Pike and Lebanon Pike in Donelson. Police said Sunday night a few of the victims were bringing in groceries. Three armed masked men forced their way into the home. They took more than $1,000 and raped a woman who was several months pregnant at gunpoint. "We're very concerned about the violence involved in this case. We're very concerned about the sexual assault," Metro...

On Monday, prosecutors charged a 24-year-old man with the shooting deaths of a father and son during a home invasion in Waseca, Minn. early Saturday morning. Michael S. Zabawa, 24, was charged in Waseca County District Court with two counts of second-degree intentional murder. Bail was set at $2 million. Zabawa is accused of breaking into the home of Tracy and Hilary Kruger early Saturday morning and killing Tracy Kruger, 40, and his son, Alec, 13. Hilary Kruger, 41, was wounded in the upper torso. According to a criminal complaint, Zabawa told police that Tracy Kruger confronted him with a...

February 4, 2007 -- A Long Island man was shot to death while struggling with a trio of masked home invaders but not before firing off a few bullets from the thugs' gun - fatally wounding one and leaving another with severe injuries, Suffolk County police said yesterday. Dane Aulak, 22, was at his Medford home with his parents and teenage brother and sister when the men broke in around 11 p.m. Friday. The bandits demanded cash and drugs and Aulak - who had been studying mixed martial arts - tried to fight them off. He grabbed the gun long...

Colin Jenkins’ girlfriend was already in bed Tuesday night, and he was just about to join her when the doorbell started to ring incessantly. When Jenkins opened the door, a man forced his way inside the rural Springfield home. Within minutes, one robbery suspect was dead and another critically wounded. Jenkins’ girlfriend had shot them both. Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly called the late-night home invasion "an apparent horrible attack on innocent victims." He said that although the case will be presented to a grand jury, he expects no charges against the shooter, 19-year-old Megan Stapleton. "There is no reason...

Along with higher temperatures, summer also brings a higher number of home burglaries. Today, The Dayton Daily News reported that: “More residential burglaries occur in July and August than at any other time of the year, according to the FBI. That's why the New York City-based Insurance Information Institute suggests that everyone protect against "a physical or virtual break-in" during this crucial time… The institute suggested the following tips to prevent residential burglaries: • Keep exterior lights on at night and put indoor lights on a timer. • Don't make it easy for crooks to break in. Slow down burglars...

CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) -- DeKalb County police say an off-duty officer shot and killed an intruder who broke into his apartment at Chamblee while he was sleeping.Police believe three men broke into the man's home at Lake Louise apartments about 2 am and say the officer was inside. His eight-year-old son also was sleeping in the apartment.Police spokesman Herschel Grangent says the officer awoke, saw the men and saw one of them pointing a gun at him. The officer shot and killed the man. Grangent says the officer was defending himself.The man's son was not injured.The officer is on...

(CBS 13) SACRAMENTO A Sacramento homeowner shot a female home invasion suspect while she was trying to break into his home, police say. A man was sitting in his home on the 8400 block of Sacramento Thursday evening when he says he heard some people trying to get inside. He got his gun and shot one of the people; the other fled. When paramedics arrived, they found the woman sitting in a green Mazda MX-3 parked near the house with a gunshot wound, say police. They took the woman to the hospital where she is being treated for her injury...

A suspected robber was fatally shot inside a Hazel Park home, early Friday morning. Police learned the victim and the shooter were acquaintances. Around 1 a.m., the homeowner called police saying he’d shot an intruder. When investigators arrived they found 22-year-old Michael Wycoff dead upstairs. The homeowner claimed his house had been ransacked and a window was broken, so he grabbed his gun and found Wycoff in an upstairs closet. Police said there was a confrontation and the homeowner fired. According to authorities, the homeowner knew the Wycoff’s sister and all three were together at her home earlier in the...

The day I signed the contract to write Home Invasion just so happened to be the day that six teenagers and I set out in our 15-passenger van on a 2,000 mile vacation. We always take other kids along with our own three when we go on our legendary Hagelin road trips. This time we were heading south from Virginia to visit Disney World and the beautiful Florida Gulf Coast beaches. (I always wonder at such moments why my wonderful and wise husband, Andy, can't ever quite make it for the "road" part of the trip-he always has to fly...

THE EASTER STORY On Easter morning they got up early for Mass at Christ the King. I’ll call them Joseph and Mary. Joseph is 36, Mary is 31 and the baby is 20 months. They live in Irondequoit, a suburb of Rochester. An old suburb with beautiful homes and salt-of-the-Earth families and an uncomfortable proximity to the city. But, like I said, on Easter morning they went to church. Then they went to Grama’s house. To Mary’s family’s house, in another Rochester suburb. And then they went to the other Grama’s house. To Joseph’s family’s house, a little more than...

By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | April 13, 2006 It was a story that touched the hearts of Minnesotans. But now it has taken a surprising turn, in Boston. A homeless, 22-year-old, undocumented immigrant from Mexico was found secretly living inside a Twin Cities high school last year, using the showers and foraging for cafeteria food. Francisco Javier Serrano's story captivated the news media there and moved a wealthy developer to provide him with money, an immigration attorney, and a rent-free apartment overlooking downtown Minneapolis. But immigration officials ordered Serrano back to Mexico. Officials believed that he boarded a plane...

The saga of a young illegal immigrant found living in Apple Valley High School continues, as he is now charged in a violent home invasion – in Boston. Francisco Serrano agreed to return to his native Mexico after a judge denied his attorney’s request to allow him to stay in the United States. Serrano was thought to have boarded a plane bound for Mexico City, but his mother told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that he had not returned. American Airlines confirmed Serrano's ticket had not been used. A Boston woman said Serrano kicked in her apartment door and threatened to attack...

A would-be burglar is recovering from a head injury in custody Friday morning, after he was driven off by a baseball bat-wielding homeowner. The attempted burglary happened about 1:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Vassar Lane near Olmos Park. Police said the female homeowner woke up to find a man in her house, so fearing for the safety of her toddler daughter, she grabbed a baseball bat. Officers said the suspect tried to calm the woman down, but she cracked him over the head with the bat. The suspect fled the scene, but was soon caught. The suspect is...

A friend of mine took these pictures of a cougar.  He lives right outside of Yellowstone, and the cougar apparently wanted to get inside of his house. Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 1. Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 2. On the back porch and showing its fangs. Peering into the house through the glass door.

Police: 7 Teens Invaded Homes For 'Adrenaline Rush'   POSTED: 12:09 pm EST March 6, 2006 UPDATED: 4:29 pm EST March 6, 2006   Police in Palm Bay, Fla., arrested seven teens in the last several days wanted in connection with a series of home break-ins that were apparently committed because the group wanted an "adrenaline rush," according to a police report. David Deluna, 18, Matt Rivera, 19, and a 16-year-old were charged with grand theft and burglary charges Monday. Another four suspects were taken into custody and charged on Friday, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. "When...

Whitehaven, TN - Three teenagers, and the father of two of them are out of jail tonight, after they admitted roughing up a DeSoto County Sheriff's Deputy. That, every body agrees on. But how it came about... and where... is the subject of lots of talk and plenty of debate. "He pulled his pistol twice on me." Ricky Brown still can't make sense of what happened, but he knows it brought dozens of officers from two states to his doorstep. He says he and his sons were sitting at home Tuesday night, when a man walked into his home claiming...

NORTH BELLMORE, Long Island There was another home invasion on Long Island. This time a North Bellmore, Long Island man who was about to step into the shower heard his front door open downstairs. Bart Salamone says he opened the bathroom door a crack and saw a stranger walking around. Salamone says he called 9-1-1 from a cordless phone in the bathroom -- but the intruder apparently heard him and kicked in the bathroom door. Salamone says he and the intruder struggled, and the thug was able to run out. Salamone says about an hour later after as he was...

Businessman charged with secret taping By EMILY C. DOOLEY STAFF WRITER SANDWICH - Police arrested the owner of a massage parlor Sunday on wiretapping charges after they discovered he had installed video cameras to spy on a woman living next door to the business. Patrick M. Dwyer, 40, of 3 Fuller Drive in Plymouth, was being held at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility. Dwyer is scheduled for arraignment in Barnstable District Court today on six counts of wiretapping, three felony counts of breaking and entering a building in the daytime and one count of possession of marijuana. The alleged victim...

SNOWFLAKE - A Snowflake woman received praise from police for her poise under pressure.       At 4:25 a.m. Oct. 1, the woman called 911 to report an intruder was in her house. She said she thought the man was drunk and simply in the wrong house but her husband was holding him at gun point.       Officers were told the front door was open and the caller's husband was in plain view from the outside. She told dispatchers she just wanted the man removed from her house.       An officer responded, took the man into temporary custody and put him into his cruiser....

Intruder said he was Boulder cop The woman wielded a bat and her husband used the stranger's knife during "a very violent fight." Boulder County - A man claiming to be a Boulder police officer pounded on the front door and demanded that it be opened. But when Becci Starr, 59, opened it, she immediately realized her mistake. A man wearing a mask made out of a T-shirt with slits for eyes pushed his way past her and demanded to know how many people were in the house. Starr fought back with a baseball bat, and her husband joined the...

EDWARDS - Eagle County Sheriff's deputies were called to the Singletree subdivision Friday night in response to a report of a person dressed as Batman entering a home. According to Kim Andree, spokeswoman for the sheriff's office, the individual is a 14-year-old boy who adapted the guise of the fictional crime fighter. "He believes he's on a mission to help people get off drugs," Andree said. "He really believes he's helping. I think the family is working on getting him some assistance." Andree said deputies responded to a complaint around 11 p.m. Friday. According to police reports, the boy entered...

Victim in trouble after reporting stolen pot Web Posted: 07/25/2005 11:09 AM CDT Marvin Hurst KENS 5 Eyewitness News He was the victim of a home invasion, but he's the one who's in trouble with the law this morning. That's because of the marijuana that the robbery suspects were after last night in the 3900 block of Fredericksburg Road. Police say the victim and his girlfriend waited 30 to 40 minutes before calling police about their stolen pot. According to police, the invaders knocked on the front door. When the victim opened it, they pulled a gun and started demanding...

BADGER BURGLAR COLLARED A badger broke into a house and woke up the neighbours by smashing a window during its bungled escape. A police spokeswoman said: "It is believed the badger entered the house via a cat flap and made its way up the stairs to a bedroom. "Once there it tried to jump through the window, causing the window to smash, and injuring itself." The 78-year-old woman who lived in the house, in Swindon, Wiltshire, was alerted to the break-in by a neighbour who was disturbed by the sound of smashing glass at about 1.30am. The neighbour told police...

This is a robbery!" someone hollered. Colton, Calif., liquor store owner Dan Lee grabbed for a pistol that was beneath the cash register, but in an instant he found himself staring down the barrel of a robber's gun. At the same JB time, he noticed another man climbing over the counter toward his mother. Lee grabbed his gun and shot them both. "He pretty much made the decision for me when he came over the counter at my mother and threatened her life," Lee said. After three recent robberies and three slayings of business owners and clerks in the San...

Python beheaded Sandnes woman Anne-Grethe Lagerren got the shock of her life when she found what was apparently a king python under her sofa. The woman was doing her Thursday evening vacuuming when she saw a snake's tail sticking out from under her living room sofa. "I screamed and ran into the kitchen but my husband said I should calm down. Easier said than done, I am still shaken," Lagergren told newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad. Her husband Leif tried to get the snake out with a broom but decided it was wiser to call police. "I couldn't believe my eyes, it...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) - A 200-pound black bear charged into a home and went on a 40-minute rampage, attacking a dog and damaging a basement guest room as it tried to claw its way out. Rosie, a 3-year-old blue heeler, was treated by a veterinarian for puncture wounds, but her owners were not injured. Karla Irving said that when she let Rosie out Saturday night, she heard the dog barking and caught a glimpse of something small scurrying in the darkness. Her eyes followed a bear cub up a tree, and when she looked back down she saw more movement.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas- Two people were convicted of alien smuggling Tuesday in a case that began when a migrant in the Texas brush promised a dying 18-year-old he would return his body to Mexico. Maria de Jesus Ojeda, 36, of San Benito, and Jose Geronimo Mendez, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant, were found guilty of transporting and harboring aliens and conspiracy to transport and harbor aliens. Both face up to life in federal prison and a maximum $250,000 fine. The men were arrested following an investigation that began when a migrant from El Salvador turned himself in and led immigration officials to...

State police say a fatal shooting in an Adair County residence will be turned over to a grand jury for investigation, but an indictment would appear unlikely. Someone broke into the residence of Ozie and Evelyn Toole, 14 miles west of Columbia at 3am Sunday. State police say Ozie Toole confronted the intruder and shot him. The Adair County coroner says 21-year-old Stephen Penn of Columbia died at the scene. A police report says entry was gained through a broken window. Investigators say the same residence had been entered earlier in the day when the Tooles were not home and that Penn...

HOLYOKE - Four heavily armed men were arrested late Thursday on home invasion and weapons charges after holding 11 people, including a 6-year-old boy, at gunpoint, police said yesterday. Arrested were Holyoke residents Rolando B. Stockton, 22, of 15 Portland St., Eric James Perez, 18, of 46 North Summer St. and Luis Michael Biaggi, 21, 540 South St., No. 3-L. Also charged was Jose L. Negron, 26, of 32 Lucretia Ave., Chicopee. All four were ordered held on $500,000 bail each following innocent pleas entered in Holyoke District Court yesterday, although Biaggi was the only defendant to appear in person...

Couple struggled with 2 robbers in Mission Bend A pair of young men who knocked on the front door of a southwest Harris County home Wednesday afternoon said they only needed help finding a nearby freeway. But violence erupted at the house in the 7900 block of Belterraza Court when they were offered help. "The two black males forced their way inside and demanded money," said Sgt. Bryan Pair with the Harris County Sheriff's Department. The homeowner, identified by neighbors as the Rev. John Peter, and his wife, Sosamma, were both shot while struggling with the armed assailants. The attack...

Four family members slain in their Jersey City home JERSEY CITY, N.J.— Four family members were found slain in their home Friday morning. All were bound and gagged, and their throats were slashed, First Assistant Hudson County Prosecutor Gaetano T. Gregory said. Jersey City police broke down the door to the home about 4 a.m. after concerned relatives said they had not heard from the family for several days, authorities said. The victims were Hossam Armanious, 46; his wife, Amal Garas, 36; and their daughters, Sylvia Armanious, 16, and Monica Armanious, 8. No arrests had been made as of...

Last Updated: Thursday, 13 January, 2005, 02:32 GMT Court fear after confronting burglar A review has concluded laws on confronting intruders are 'sound' As laws governing how much force householders can use against intruders remain unchanged, one man remembers how his own frightening experience was worsened by a legal battle. Derek Godfrey-Brown, 64, was charged with grievous bodily harm after confronting and injuring an intruder he found in his bedroom. Mr Godfrey-Brown was a publican and company director in Basingstoke, Hampshire, at the time of the incident about 10 years ago and kept irregular working hours. He said he remembers...

Bursting into a New Brunswick apartment armed with a gun and boxcutters, four masked men had robbery on their minds, expecting a group of Rutgers University students would be easy pickings for cash and marijuana, a prosecuting attorney told a jury in Middlesex County yesterday.Screaming obscenities and ordering their victims to lie face- down on the living room floor, the men quickly turned the break-in into an opportunity to sexually assault three of their sobbing victims, First Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor William Lamb said.One woman was attacked as her friends watched in terror, and the other two were led into...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Three home invaders were repelled in a shootout Sunday night with a homeowner that left one of the attackers dead and one seriously wounded, police said.Police said 47-year-old Edwin Vega was one of three people who broke into a DeKalb Avenue home. The homeowner opened fire on the assailants, killing Vega. The two others fled, but not before one was wounded.The homeowner was also shot and wounded in the attack.A short time later a man showed up at St. Vincent's Hospital with a gunshot wound to the mouth. Police said, Frankie Rodriguez, 26, of Bridgeport, was one...

FEWER GUNS = MORE CRIME by Rod D. Martin, 11 July 2000 Four years into the British and Australian gun bans, the verdict on gun control is in: disaster. Those who argue for the right of self-defense have always said that banning guns would disarm the law-abiding while encouraging the criminals. Yet even by the standards of most pro-gun arguments, the actual results of total gun control have been startling, leaving anti-gunners and government officials at a loss to explain the debacle. Take Australia. Just over one year ago, the Australian government spent more than $500 million to confiscate 640,381...

Home invaders attack woman By Jeff Wilford RACINE - Two masked intruders beat and sexually assaulted a 19-woman while she lay in bed at her home Monday morning. The woman, whom Racine police did not identify, suffered "significant injuries," according to Crime Stoppers of Racine County Inc., which is offering a $1,000 reward for information about the home invasion. The attack, at a home in the 2800 block of Hayes Avenue, happened sometime between 6 a.m. and 6:52 a.m., when the woman called police, Macemon said. Her father had left for work shortly before 6 a.m., Macemon said. Not long...

One of the key measures of a society's health is how easily you can insulate yourself from its underclass. In America, unless one resides in a very small number of problematic inner-city quarters or wishes to make a career in the drug trade, one will live a life blessedly untouched by crime. In Britain, alas, it's the peculiar genius of Home Office policy to have turned the entire country into one big, rundown, inner-city, no-go slum estate, extending from prosperous suburbs to leafy villages, even unto Upper Cheyne Row. The murderers of John Monckton understood the logic of this policy...

TRENTON - Minutes after four young men robbed a Hiltonia resident of $1,500 cash Sunday night and threatened to rape his teenage daughters, one of the suspects lay dead under the victim's sport utility vehicle on nearby Route 29. The unidentified young man was killed after he jumped from his car and began shooting at the SUV driven by Robert O'Neal, 54, who had given chase. O'Neal ran him over, police said. "I didn't mean for this to happen," O'Neal said yesterday, fighting back tears. "I'm a single parent with two daughters. They had my credit cards, my wallet. They...