Jun 16, 2009 6:32 pm US/Eastern
Cops Hunt Suspects In Westchester Home Invasion
1 In Custody, 4 Or 5 On Run After Brazen Hastings-On-Hudson Robbery Foiled By Quick-Thinking Teen With Cell Phone
HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (CBS) ―
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Police are searching for three of four suspects in an alleged home invasion in Westchester on Monday night.
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Bound and terrified.
A Westchester County family was held hostage in their home by armed robbers.
The episode played out late Monday night in the quiet town of Hastings-on-Hudson.
Angela DiPaolo was still visibly shaken Tuesday by what happened to her family Monday night. At around 11 p.m. several men followed her husband from his famed Bronx restaurant "Dominick's" to their Hastings home and took both the husband and wife by surprise.
"When he got out of his car in the garage they were right there," Hastings Police Chief John Kapica said.
Once inside, the men pistol-whipped the husband, and then bound the couple with plastic ties.
Their 17-year-old son was upstairs when he heard the commotion.
"He came downstairs to listen to what was going on, got his cell phone. He went upstairs and secured himself in a closet and called 9-1-1 from the closet," Kapica said.
The masked thieves discovered him moments later, but not before he was able to call for help.
"Proud, very proud, very smart," Angela DiPaolo said of her son.
"If it wasn't for him God knows what would have happened," Chief Kapica added.
Police arrived while the thieves were emptying the safe. They apprehended 41-year-old Francisco Cordero of Yonkers. The other men eluded capture by running through the woods behind the home and possibly into the cemetery.
"I am fairly confident we'll get some of them. All of them is another story," Kapica said.
Police recovered a loaded handgun and a knapsack with money inside the homeowner's Cadillac, which was most likely going to be used as a getaway car. Investigators are still searching for the four or five men that got away.
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