2 Homes Robbed in 3-Hour Span
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LANCASTER — Robbers wearing ski masks and wielding shotguns stormed into two homes in a span of three hours early Monday, causing sheriff’s deputies to wonder whether both crimes were committed by the same bandits.
In the first robbery, three men forced their way into a home in the 2500 block of Stillmeadow Lane at 6:30 a.m. by holding a sawed-off shotgun to a man’s head. The robbers bound the hands and feet of the man, his wife and two children with duct tape and searched the home for valuables.
No one was harmed, and the robbers escaped with cash, deputies said.
Another home-invasion robbery took place at 9:30 a.m., when two men wearing ski masks kicked down the door of a home in the 600 block of East Pillsbury Street. The victim, a man who was home alone, told authorities that one robber had a shotgun and the other had a rifle.
The robbers took money from the man and then fled in a red minivan, deputies said.
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