TARENTUM, Pa. — A Tarentum man was duct taped and held at gunpoint during a frightening home invasion Tuesday morning.
Tony Irwin told Channel 11 News he thought he was going to die when three armed men wearing masks broke into his Lock Street apartment around 11:30 a.m.
“I backed up into the dining room and he said, ‘Where is it?’ and I said, ‘Where’s what?’” Irwin said.
Irwin said the men led him to an apartment downstairs, and after that is when they seemed to back off.
“They picked up her clothes that were laying on the ground and just kind of dropped it. I guess they realized they were in the wrong place,” Irwin said.
Irwin, 47, said he was home alone at the time, except for his dog, Puppy Girl.
“She listens to me, thank God,” he said. “If she would have gotten shot, I don’t know what I would’ve done.”
Tarentum police later arrested three of the victim’s neighbors after finding thousands of dollars worth of cocaine and marijuana in their home -- the one the suspects may have actually been searching for all along.
“They were very calm and they knew what they wanted. Obviously it wasn’t in any of these apartments,” Irwin said.
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