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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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Tredyffrin Township detectives say violent Berwyn home invasion armed robbery may be linked to a similar crime nearby.
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 several regional law enforcement agencies to see if Thursday's crime is connected to at least one other jewelry store home invasion robbery that occured in…
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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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Thursday night's violent home invasion/kidnapping robbery is not the first time he has been robbed.
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 crime, who did not want to be identified by name, recall seeing three people running from the scene towards the shopping center's parking lot. "It …
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 …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Police says three suspects targeted their victims.
Tredyffrin Police are searching for a dangerous fugitive who police say took part in a home invasion in Paoli. Two other suspects in the case have already been captured and arrested. Editor's Note: Tredyffrin Police provided the following information to the media. All suspects are considered not guilty until proved oterwise. On Thursday, January 17th, 2013 at approx. 1230 hrs., Tredyffrin Twp. Police Department detectives, following up on a lead, identified and arrested the following subjects for a home invasion robbery: Craig “Hubby” Brown, 33 years of age, of the 100 block of West Central Ave., Paoli, and Kenneth Owen Durrell, Jr., 30 years of age of the 900 block of Fairview Avenue, Wayne, PA. A third subject, one-Dante Bruce Alston, …
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