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Friday, December 21, 2012

Armed Cranberry Home Invasion Remains Under Investigation

Sgt. Chuck Mascellino says investigators are working on several leads after three men entered a townhouse and tied up its occupants.

Cranberry Township Police continue to investigate a robbery where three armed men broke into a residence in the Laurelwood Apartment complex off Rochester Road and demanded drugs and money from the occupants. Sgt. Chuck Mascellino said investigators are working on a few different leads in the incident. “We’re following up on it,” he said. Last Thursday, the suspects, who were carrying at least one long gun and a handgun, ransacked the townshouse after tying up the five people who were living there. All five of the occupants are construction workers temporarily living in the area, police said. Within 15 minutes of the break-in, two other occupants of the apartments arrived home and surprised the suspects, according to police. The robbers …

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Laurelwood Residents React to Armed Cranberry Home Invasion

Police are searching for three men who forced their way into a residence and tied up five of the occupants.

Current and former residents of the Village of Laurelwood apartment complex in Cranberry normally consider the neighborhood a safe place to live, according to comments made on the Cranberry Patch Facebook page. “We feel or felt safe here until the incident last night, especially because we have a lot of kids in the complex,” commented reader Erika De Guzman. On Thursday, three armed men forced their way into a townhouse in the apartment community and demanded drugs and money from the five occupants. After tying up the occupants, all construction workers temporarily living in the Pittsburgh area, the suspects ransacked the townhouse. Within 15 minutes of the break in, two other occupants arriving home and surprised the suspects, who were …

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