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Couple Pistol-Whipped After Home Invasion By Men Posing As Law Enforcement Officers

Release Date: October 26, 2004

Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies are looking for at least four, possibly five men today, who barged their way into a couple’s home in south-east Shelby County. The couple was severely beaten.

The couple told Sheriff’s Deputies they awakened about 4:30 this morning when several men banged at the back door at their home, which is located in the 9400 block of Plantation Lake Road near Collierville.

The men wore ski masks and black shirts that said “POLICE.” All of the men, armed with pistols, were yelling, “Police! F.B.I.! Open Up!”

As the couple answered the door, the men barged their way inside the house demanding money. They forced the lady to take them through the house ransacking various rooms. Not finding any money, the men beat the woman and her husband with their pistols and a cue stick from a pool table.

The couple was then taken to a bathroom where their feet were bound with duct tape. The man was able to free himself and call for Sheriff’s Deputies on a cell phone that was lying on a bedside table not far from the bathroom.

Investigators say the couple had no idea who the men were or why they would come to their home. The men left in the couple’s 2000 Lincoln Navigator SUV. The vehicle is black and has a Tennessee plate number: NDA-676.

Anyone with information about what happened should call Crime Stoppers at (901) 528-CASH (2274) or the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Detective Division at (901) 545-5600.

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