Police release photos of four charged with home invasion

Nassau County Police have released photos of four Brooklyn men who allegedly forced their way into a North Bellmore home on Bellmore Avenue on Monday at around 9 a.m., which sent police on a chase that wound through Merrick and eventually Wantagh.

The Nassau County Police Department identified the four men as Eduardo Cruz, 35, Gustavo Arroyo, 33, Dario Guerrero, 55, and Carlos Enrique Segura, 29, all from Brooklyn.

Three residents at the home were tied up, and the alleged invaders made off with $7,000 before they were captured, according to the homeowners.

Nassau County police officers pursued the men by car, firing shots at and wounding one of the suspects, authorities said.

Three of the suspects were caught on Monday morning. Police said that the fourth suspect, who evaded police for much of the morning, was captured at around 12:30 p.m. on the Southern State Parkway, off Grand Avenue in Baldwin. He had attempted to take a taxicab back to Brooklyn.

Lt. Kevin Smith of the NCPD said that officers fired at and struck one of the suspects as they pursued him by car, wounding him in the leg. There were conflicting reports of where and how he was shot. He may have been wounded on Babylon Turnpike in Merrick, or somewhere in Wantagh. Police did not say precisely where. The suspect suffered a minor wound, a person with knowledge of the incident said. The suspect was apprehended on Sunrise Highway in Wantagh in a white Crown Victoria, which had two bullet holes in the front windshield and one in the back window. Allegedly, he drove the getaway car.

Six people were admitted to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow for treatment, said Shelly Lotenberg, a hospital spokeswoman. Smith said that three of those admitted were residents of the invaded home, two were suspects, including the one with the gunshot wound, and one was a police officer who suffered an ankle injury while pursuing a suspect.

As of press time, police had not identified a motive for the crime, nor had they identified the suspects’ individual roles in the attack or the subsequent escape attempt.

Each of the suspects was charged with four counts of first-degree robbery and three counts of first-degree burglary. Additionally, Cruz and Arroyo were charged with first-degree resisting arrest, and Guerrero was charged with attempted aggravated assault.

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