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Masked Men Hold Four Women at Gunpoint

Two women were ordered to the ground at gunpoint and had their cell phones taken, police said.

Four women were held at gunpoint during an armed robbery on Sunday morning on Forest Drive, police said.

Three men wearing black masks, armed with guns, kicked in the back door to a residence in the 2000 block of Forest Drive at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday, according to a police report.

One of the men demanded to speak to the son of one of the residents, and then asked "where is the money," according to the report. He then ordered her to call an unknown subject and ask him to come to the home, the report stated.

Two of the men took two women in a room, ordered them to lie on the floor and took their cell phones.

When the men fled, police were contacted. But when authorities arrived, the suspects had fled, police said.

There were no reported injuries as a result of the incident, police said.

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