Four held in Antrim robbery probe
Four people were arrested today by police investigating the armed robbery of a family in their Co Antrim home.
Two men aged 27, a man aged 43 and 44-year-old woman, were being questioned about the robbery of the family at Dundrod, outside Lisburn on Monday afternoon.
The four suspects, together with another woman bailed to return to police later, were detained in the early hours of this morning.
Three masked men armed with a shotgun and pistol entered the family home in the Flowbog Road at around 3pm and forced the family to sit on the floor while three flat-screen TVs and cash were taken.
The robbers made off in the family’s blue VW Passat car and a Nissan Micra in which they had arrived. The family was unhurt, said police.
The Nissan was later found ablaze in the Twinbrook area. Police said initial inquiries suggested the car had been seized from a woman driver outside a supermarket in the Lisburn Road area of Belfast on Sunday evening.`
Police were also investigating a robbery at the home of a couple in their 70s in Greencastle, on the outskirts of north Belfast.
Four men forced their way into the property in Veryan Gardens at around 7.30 last night and, while three held the pensioners in a downstairs room, the other searched the property.
In an upstairs room he confronted the couple’s daughter and said they were looking for drugs.
The intruders made off with the woman’s handbag, containing cash, keys and bank cards.
