Po­lice suc­cess­ful­ly ap­pre­hend­ed four men who car­ried out a home in­va­sion at Re­al Spring, Val­sayn yes­ter­day, and robbed a res­i­dent of cash and valu­ables be­fore leav­ing in a wait­ing car which they lat­er aban­doned af­ter the neigh­bour­hood watch group raised an alarm.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent which oc­curred around noon sent shock­waves through the area as fright­ened res­i­dents rushed to mes­sage and call one an­oth­er af­ter the sus­pects en­tered the prop­er­ty as the home­own­er slept.

Af­ter en­ter­ing the house, the sus­pects forced the vic­tim to hand over a quan­ti­ty of valu­ables and cash be­fore they left in a wait­ing car.

As the dri­ver sped off in the white Toy­ota Axio Sedan, res­i­dents alert­ed the po­lice as they at­tempt­ed to thwart the get­away.

Their ef­forts were not in vain and forced the sus­pects to aban­don their car along Harold Fras­er Cir­cu­lar.

The men al­leged­ly ran in­to the bushy area on the out­skirts of the hous­ing de­vel­op­ment.

A large con­tin­gent of po­lice of­fi­cers from the St Joseph CID, the Tu­na­puna CID, the Pi­ar­co CID, the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force West, the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force East, along with per­son­nel from the St Joseph and Tu­na­puna War­rants Staff, the Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch, the North­ern Di­vi­sion Emer­gency Re­sponse, and the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit con­duct­ed an ex­ten­sive search of the SWW­TU hous­ing scheme at Bam­boo #2 and en­vi­rons, which re­sult­ed in the cap­ture and ar­rest of three sus­pects.

Of­fi­cers al­so re­cov­ered two bags which al­leged­ly con­tained the valu­ables tak­en from the res­i­dent, along with a stash of oth­er items al­so be­lieved to be stolen, in the Toy­ota Axio.