Charges laid in home invasion Friday

Five men have been charged in connection with a home invasion in the Overbrook area.

Around 4 am yesterday… four men burst into the home at 300 Glynn avenue demanding cash.  

They forced two residents into the basement where one was alledgedly beaten with a firearm and injured with a knife.  A second resident also suffered a knife wound.  

According to the Citizen, the attackers did not know there was a third person in the house upstairs who was able to call police.  

Officers arrived and arrested the four still in the home and a fifth man waiting outside in a stolen vehicle.

Police found a loaded hundgun and ammunition inside the home along with crack cocaine and marijuana.

The five suspects, aged 18 to 29, face a total of 43 charges including robbery and forcible confinement.

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