Tredyffrin Police believe the home invaders who bound and robbed a couple in their Berwyn home have been involved in several other similar home invasion robberies. In an exclusive interview with NBC10 News, the victim of one of those other robberies says the attack on the owner of Shuler's Jewelers says hearing reports of last Thursday's attack in Berwyn brought back the terror. "For something like this to happen, it's terrifying," the unidentified man told NBC10. Just as in the Berwyn home invasion, the 61-year-old employee of Bixler's Jeweler in Allentown was surprised in his home. As in …
Acting on a tip from someone who saw the story in the news, police have recovered the victim's car used in last Thursday's armed home invasion, robbery and kidnapping of a Berwyn man and his wife. The four gunmen in the case are still on the loose. Tredyffrin Police Detective Sgt. Todd Bereda says the Jewelery store owner's 2012 Volkswagen Jetta was found on a street in East Norriton Tuesday night. According to Bareda the car was found after a viewer saw the story on a late local TV newscast Tuesday and called police. Bereda says the discovery of the four-door sedan is a "critical moment in …
There is now a $25,000 reward for information in the case of a Berwyn man and his wife who were bound and robbed by four masked gunmen in a violent home invasion robbery last week in Tredyffrin Township. According to police the man was surprised by four armed men as he arrived home in Berwyn last Thursday night, Jan. 31. The man and his wife were then bound with duct tape as robbers ransacked their home. The man was then taken at gunpoint, in his own car to Shuler's Jewelers, the jewelry store he owns in East Norriton, Montgomery County. Late Tuesday afternoon Tredyffrin Police announced that…
Tredyffrin Police, Chester County Detectives, Montogmery County Police, the FBI, East Norriton Police and other agencies are working to find four masked and armed gunmen who pulled off a brazen home invasion and double robbery Thursday. The owner of Shuler Jewelers in East Norriton and his wife were held up and gunpoint in their Berwyn home Thursday night. The couple was bound with duct tape and the jewlery store owner was forced to take two of the gunmen to his store while his wife was held bound at gunpoint inside their home. Tredyffrin Police Detectives are working with the FBI and …
There have now been two home invasion cases in Tredyffrin Township in the past month. Suspects are now in prison in the first, but the home invaders in the second case are still on the loose. Should the average local resident be worried for their own safety? Home invasion robberies are extremely unusual in Tredyffrin and Easttown. Tredyffrin Police say the two cases that have happened in the past few weeks, a home invasion in the middle of the night in Paoli and Thursday's home invasion robbery in Berwyn were targeted at specific victims. While that comes as no comfort to the victims in the …
Update at 5:20 p.m.: Tredyffrin Police say the value of the items taken from the jewelry store is being "placed in the hundreds of thousands of dollars." The value of the items taken from the couple's house is still undetermined but the robbers did get away with credit cards and other "as yet undetermined items with some value." As the search for at least four violent, masked gunmen continues new information is coming to light about what happened to the owner of Shuler Jewelers and his wife Thursday night at their Tredyffrin Home. According to police four armed men were lying in wait for …
Thursday night's violent home invasion/kidnapping robbery at gunpoint of the owner of Shuler's Jewelers store owner may the most dramatic, but not the first time he has been robbed. The store in East Norriton was robbed on December 15, 2011 in a smash and grab robbery captured on security cameras and posted on Youtube. One of the company's former branch locations in the Chesterbrook Shopping Center was also robbed several years ago in another smash and grab robbery. Workers at Diane's Sidewalk Deli in Chesterbrook recalled the robbery that happened on a weekday morning. Witnesses to that …
Tredyffrin Police say a Berwyn man and his wife were tied up and robbed at gunpoint Thursday night (January 31) inside their Berwyn home. The man was then forced into his own car by three or four masked gunmen and forced to go to the jewelry store he owns in East Norriton (Norristown) where police say the kidnappers then robbed the store, Shuler's Jewelers. According to Tredyffrin Township Police: On Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 8:28 PM., Tredyffrin Twp. Police officers responded to a “911” call on the 200 block of Wooded Way, in the Berwyn section of Tredyffrin , for a reported home …
Update as of 1:00 a.m.: Tredyffrin Police say a Berwyn couple was tied up at gunpoint and then robbed before the home invaders forced the man to take them to the jewelry store he owns in East Norriton where police say the assailants robbed the store. Tredyffrin Police provided the following account of what is known so far in the case in a special release sent to Patch at 1 a.m. Friday. Information received by police was that a local resident, who had returned from work at approximately 7 PM, was accosted by three or four black male (masked) subjects armed with handguns who forced themselves …
