Title: 3 charged in home break-in where residents were tied up
Author: Bill McAuliffe; Staff Writer
Date: December 18, 1999
Section: NEWS
Page: 02B
Three men were charged Friday with first-degree aggravated robbery in connection with a home break-in in which two people were bound, gagged and blindfolded and their house ransacked.
Dale L. Latham, 21; William C. Ruble, 19, and Teiso L. Scroggins, 19, all of St. Paul, were charged in Ramsey County District Court.
According to court documents:
The three men told police they broke into the house on St. Clair Av. at Ayd Mill Rd. in St. Paul about 2:30 a.m. Thursday, intending to steal marijuana, money or both. A resident confronted them on the stairs and retreated to a bedroom to call 911, but the men broke into the bedroom and tied up two people there.
The men allegedly gathered more than $700 in cash as well as jewelry, other items and three small containers of marijuana. One threatened to shoot or stab the residents and displayed a gun.
After the men left, the victims quickly worked themselves free and called police. One of the victims, who had been able to see through her blindfold, identified Latham. Police arrested him at Ruble's home in the 2000 block of Marshall Av. shortly after 3 a.m. They arrested Ruble and Scroggins about 10 a.m. in the 700 block of Carroll Av.
They're being held in the Ramsey County jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Author: Bill McAuliffe; Staff Writer
Section: NEWS
Page: 02B
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