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Three captured after home invasion in Norwood Park

January 24, 2012 12:48PM

Charges are pending against three men captured by police after an aggressive home invasion in the Northwest Side Norwood Park neighborhood Monday evening.

The incident, which appeared to be random, happened about 7:30 p.m. in the 5800 block of North Oconto, police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said.

Two men began pounding on the front door of the home and ringing the doorbell repeatedly. A woman in the home immediately called 911. But at the same time, the two men began to fiercely knock on the door, Mirabelli said.

Meanwhile, another man kicked in the back door, Mirabelli said.

A man in the home tried to keep the third robber from getting in by pushing the back door, but the robber was able to break free and made his way inside the home. Once inside, he threatened the woman. That home invader was the only one to make it inside, police said.

Officers were called to the scene and two of the home invaders were found by beat officers near the Harlem Blue Line station. The third jumped the tracks onto the Kennedy Expressway, Mirabelli said. That man was caught by tactical officers near Foster and Harlem.

The three men were identified by the victims. Home invasion charges were pending as of 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The couple — a man in his early 60s and a woman in her mid-50s — were not injured.