{"id":40413,"date":"2016-07-07T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40413"},"modified":"2016-07-07T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T18:24:25","slug":"masked-assailants-terrorize-victim-during-home-invasion-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/07\/masked-assailants-terrorize-victim-during-home-invasion-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked Assailants Terrorize Victim During Home Invasion Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help gathering any information on a violent home invasion robbery in Lehigh Acres\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0morning.<\/p>\n

The victim was in bed just before\u00a07 a.m.\u00a0on Tuesday, July 5, when she heard a loud banging at the front door of her Gardner Avenue home.\u00a0 She heard two men yelling “Police,” which prompted her to see what was happening.\u00a0 As she was walking out of her bedroom, the victim was met by two Hispanic males, both wearing black masks, black sweatsuits and black gloves.\u00a0 The men pushed her back onto the bed and bound both her hands and ankles with zip ties, instructing her not to move or she’d be hurt.\u00a0 One of the suspects held a silver knife, with a red handle, against her throat, while the second male ransacked the house.\u00a0 Taken during the robbery was a handgun, jewelry, four designer purses, as well as other items.\u00a0 The men were even bold enough to remove the woman’s wedding ring from her hand before they left.<\/p>\n

Both men are Hispanic and spoke Spanish, in which is believed to possibly be a Cuban dialect.\u00a0 Anyone with information on the identities and whereabouts of the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).\u00a0 All callers will remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.\u00a0 Tips may also be made online at\u00a0www.southwestfloridacrimestoppers.com<\/a> or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help gathering any information on a violent home invasion robbery in Lehigh Acres\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0morning. The victim was in bed just before\u00a07 a.m.\u00a0on… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}