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Inwood Home Invaders Rob Tourists At Gunpoint, Police Say

Four men broke into an apartment on Academy Street and Seaman Avenue and threatened the people staying there with guns.

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Inwood residents were held at gunpoint in their home. (Photo by NYPD)

INWOOD, NY — Tourists staying at an Inwood apartment were held at gunpoint by a group of men and locked in a bathroom during a home invasion robbery, police said.

Four masked men barged into a home on Academy Street and Seaman Avenue early Sunday morning and threatened the residents with handguns, police said. A 25-year-old woman was forced into a bathroom and robbed of her wallet, ID, credit cards and cash, an NYPD spokesperson said.

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Nobody was injured during the robbery, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477).

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