Crime & Safety
Armed Robbery On Vassar Campus
The students in a campus townhouse were bound after which the home was burglarized.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — A group of Vassar College students were bound and their townhouse on campus was burglarized early Friday morning. Around 2 a.m., two men got into the house through an unlocked door with what appeared to be a handgun.
Vassar's Safety and Security department said the students were bound and then the men searched the house, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported.
The area was searched with a Town of Poughkeepsie police dog, but the men were believed to have fled from the area.
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