Crime & Safety
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.
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.
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).
