Saturday, February 9, 2013
Three men are charged with a home invasion robbery. It is one of two home invasion cases in Tredyffrin Township in recent weeks.
Three men have been ordered to stand trial on charges stemming from a middle-of-the-night home invasion at a Paoli townhouse on Jan. 13. Chesterbrook District Court Magistrate Analisa Sondergaard ordered the case against Dante Bruce Alston, 32, of Paoli, Craig Alexander Brown, 34, of Paoli and Kenneth Owen Durrell, 34, of Philadelphia bound over for trial in Chester County Common Pleas court. The three defendants are accused of breaking into a townhouse occupied by two men in the middle of the night. According to affidavits of probable cause filed in the case, three men broke in through a rear window of the ground floor townhouse after the two men inside refused to open the front door. Tredyffrin Police say the break-in happened around 3…
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
A man police believe may have been robbed by the same home invaders that attacked a Berwyn couple tells his story.
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 the Berwyn case, the man and his wife were bound with duct tape at gunpoint. The man was then forced to take the robbers to his store while his wife …
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
A tip from the public leads police to a critical piece of evidence that had been missing.
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 the investigation." Detectives spent Wednesday morning going through the car looking for clues. Police hope evidence in the car will lead them to the …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Insurance company and jeweler association offer big reward in effort to find armed masked home invaders.
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 there is now a $25,000 being offered for information "leading to the arrest and conviction of persons involved in the robbery/kidnapping" According …
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Home ivasions are extremely rare, but there are things you can do to keep from becoming a victim of far more common crimes.
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 cases, it also does not indicate that there is any kind of emerging crime trend in TE. In the first case, police believe the home invasion was drug-…
Friday, February 1, 2013
New details emerge in Thursday's home invasion armed robbery of a jeweler and his wife in Tredyffrin.
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 the man as he arrived home around 7 p.m. Thursday. Tredyffrin Public Information Officer Detective Sgt.Todd Bereda tells TE Patch that when the man …
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The search is on for at least four masked gunmen in a violent home invasion Thursday night.
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 invasion robbery and kidnapping. Information received by police was that a local resident, who had returned from work at approximately 7 PM, was accosted …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Suspect surrenders to detectives at Tredyffrin Police Headquarters
The third of three suspects in a Paoli home invasion robbery has surrendered to police and is now in Chester County Prison. Dante Bruce Alston, 32, turned himself in at Tredyffrin Police Headquarters at about 11 a.m. Wednesday. A police spokesman tells TE Patch that Alston was accompanied by familiy members when he arrived at the police station at the Tredyffrin Township Municipal Building. Tredyffrin Police released the following update in the case Wednesday afternoon. UPDATE – HOME INVASION ROBBERY ARREST A previously reported home invasion robbery that occurred on January 13, 2013 resulted in the arrests of two subjects. The third actor, who was still at large as of earlier today (Wednesday January 23), is now in custody. Police …
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Tredyffrin Township Municipal Building
1100 Duportail Rd, Berwyn, PA
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