Crime & Safety
Deputies Search for Suspect in Home Invasion
The suspect fled the house after one of his victims was able to get free and call 911.

Deputies are searching for a man who held two people at gunpoint in a home invasion robbery Tuesday evening.
The suspect went to a home in the 8400 block of Misty Morning Court and knocked on the front door. When the homeowner answered the door, the suspect asked for someone who did not live at the address.
When the homeowner told the man that he had the wrong address, the man pulled a gun from his waistband. The suspect pointed the pistol at the homeowner as he pushed his way into the house. He told the homeowner that he was not going to hurt him.
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The homeowner had a visitor at his house. When the suspect saw the woman, he took her into the master bedroom and tied her hands and feet to the bedpost using zip ties.He then took the woman's bracelet, ankle bracelet, ring and a necklace.
The suspect then went back to the homeowner and bound his hands with zip ties. He led the homeowner out of the house and tried to take him to his vehicle. When they got outside the suspect realized that the visitor had blocked the homeowner's car. The suspect went back into the house but the woman was not where he had left her. At that point he ran from the house.
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The woman had freed herself from the ties ad had crawled under the bed and called 9-1-1.
The sheriff is asking anyone with information on this case to please call Crime Stoppers at 866-634 8477.
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