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Meriden Police Investigating Home Invasion, Kidnapping

Police are on the lookout for a silver BMW believed to have been used in the kidnapping of two people from a Gravel Street apartment on Thursday.

A group of men wearing masks and gloves, and brandishing handguns, bound and gagged four victims during a Meriden home invasion Thursday evening, police said.

None of victims was injured due to this crime however police said two of the victims were kidnapped during the incident and taken to Fairfield where some sort robbery of a Lennox jewelry store took place, according to a news release from Meriden Police spokesman Sgt. Darrin McKay.

At 10:51 p.m. Thursday Meriden police responded to a report of a home invasion at 120 Gravel St., Unit #71, where police found two victims bound and gagged with duct tape inside the home. Two other victims had apparently showed up during the evening and were also bound and gagged, police said.

According to police, four suspects — identified as men wearing masks and gloves and brandishing handguns — were behind the home invasion, and a fifth suspect may have possibly bene involved. Police said the suspects took the initial two victims to the Fairfield jewelry store where they committed a burglary.

The relationship between any of the victims is unknown at this point, police said.

Police said victims stole a silver 2009 BMW 528 XI, bearing the Massachusetts registration number 96NV02, which belonged to one of the victims, and used this as the transportation to Fairfield.

The victims who were transported to Fairfield were blindfolded and they were loaded into a vehicle here in Meriden for the ride to Fairfield; however, while en route to Fairfield, the victims were made to exit the vehicle at which time they were loaded into a second vehicle, police said.

The second pair of victims remained bound and gagged at the home in Meriden and at least one of the suspects remained with them. Anyone with any information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Meriden Police Department’s Major Crimes Division at (203) 630-6201.  


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