Intruders steal cash and guns

Intruders steal cash, guns in Manatee home invasion
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Manatee County sheriff's deputies are looking for two shotgun-wielding intruders who stole more than $1,000 in cash, a pair of guns, some jewelry and a pickup truck this morning after using duct tape to bind three victims. No one was physically injured in the home invasion that occurred in the 3200 block of 48th Street East just before 1:30 a.m. today. Twenty-one-year-old Ronnie Sims Jr. came home at that time driving his father's 2002 silver Toyota Tacoma and heard voices from the north side of the home. That's when two men, with shirts tied over their faces and toting shotguns, came around the corner and forced Sims into the house. Inside, the intruders woke Ronnie Sims Sr., 48, and his 53-year-old wife, Phyllis. As one gunman held the residents at gunpoint, the other ransacked a bedroom and took more than $1,000 in cash, deputies said, a pair of handguns and a bracelet that were kept in a safe. They snatched a necklace off the father's neck and took credit cards as well, deputies said. All three victims' ankles and wrists were bound with duct tape and their heads covered with pillow cases, deputies said. The intruders stole the Tacoma to make their getaway. Complete descriptions of the gunmen were unavailable.

Burglar shot during Home Invasion

Sheriff: Burglar Shot During Home Invasion
HARDIN COUNTY, Ill.--

A home invasion late Tuesday night ended with an alleged burglar in the hospital, according to Hardin County Sheriff Tom Seiner.The sheriff reported in a press release that the woman in the home shot the intruder.The home on Tower Rock Road outside Elizabethtown belongs to Marty Impastato and her husband Bruce, who was not home. Impastato's daughter tells News Three that the man entered the home through an unlocked window. Shawna Stevens says the man is a friend of the family who visits the home regularly. She says she's not sure why he broke in.According to Stevens, Impastato grabbed her gun when she heard the man make his way across the house. Stevens reports that when the man entered the bedroom and rustled through the safe where the family keeps jewelry and prescription drugs, Impastato shot him.Illinois statute makes it legal for the victim of a home invasion to shoot someone in their home if they believe they can prevent violence to themselves or others in the dwelling or they reasonably believe that force is necessary to prevent a felony.The sheriff's department is not releasing the name of the alleged burglar. He is described only as a white male in his twenties. Wednesday night he was in the intensive care unit at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Indiana. He has not been charged.By Dana Jaydjay@wsiltv.com