Police: Connecticut Family Tied Up In Home Invasion
NORTH BRANFORD, Conn. (WCBS 880/AP) - A relative of victims of an alleged home invasion in a wealthy North Branford neighborhood says five suspects tied up his family for hours and ransacked the house.
No one was injured.
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Police say the masked and armed intruders broke into the home at 17 Autumn Court in the Northford section of town at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday and fled hours later in the family's pickup truck, which was found abandoned across town. Authorities haven't located the suspects.
Tom Martone told WTIC-TV that the victims were his mother, father, sister and his 3-year-old son. Martone, who lives next door, says the suspects made off with a shotgun, liquor, homemade wine and tomato sauce after unsuccessfully trying to get his father to open a safe.
The victims called 911 at about 3 a.m. Monday.
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