Bloomington Police investigating weekend home invasion

Posted on December 4, 2017

By Howard Packowitz

BLOOMINGTON- Bloomington Police are looking for leads to solve a weekend home invasion on the city’s far southeast side.

Police say the 44-year old victim was asleep when three black males, one allegedly armed with a handgun, forced their way into a residence in the three-thousand block of Rudder Lane, just after midnight on Sunday.

The suspects allegedly took the woman’s phone and fled the scene.

No one was hurt.

Anyone with information is asked to call BPD Detective Tim Matt Dick at (309) 434-2475 or, to remain anonymous, call McLean County Crime Stoppers at (309) 828-1111.

Howard Packowitz can be reached at [email protected].

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