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Leander police: Tips pouring in on home invasion
A flurry of tips related to Tuesday’s Leander home invasion is helping police compile a list of potential suspects, officials said Thursday.
“We’ve had numerous tips come in from Crime Stoppers and neighbors in the area saying that they’ve seen a guy that looks like this guy,” Leander police Capt. Greg Minton said.
Minton said the department has put together a list of seven or eight people that match descriptions of the two men that entered a home on Elkhorn Ranch Road in the Lakeline Ranch neighborhood about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday with stun guns and bound two women’s hands with tape before demanding to know the location of a safe.
Police said the home invaders are both white. They said one was 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall, had a goatee and was wearing a dark-colored suit and black beanie-style cap with eye holes. He also had the word “LOVE” tattooed across his right knuckles. The second robber is 6 feet to 6-foot-2 and was wearing a black ski mask, dark shirt and work pants, police said.
“Apparently there are a lot of people with ‘LOVE’ tattoos on their hands,” Minton said, referring to the number of calls police have received.
Tuesday’s home invasion was the second in a little more than a month to occur on the same cul-de-sac. In a December case, the robbers were also armed with stun guns and demanded the location of a safe.
Minton said that there are several similarities between the two instances, though police are not “100 percent sure” they are related. Minton also said the fact that the suspects broke into two homes on the same small street demanding a safe indicates they are looking for something specific.
“Usually they know there’s something there that they want; it’s not usually just a random ‘take a chance at it,’ ” he said.
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