GUILTY Canada - men posed as construction workers during violent home invasion, Toronto, 27 Sept 2018

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Police search for men who posed as construction workers during violent home invasion | CBC News

A security camera captured video of the men that Toronto police allege violent assaulted a 67-year-old man during a home invasion in September. (Toronto Police Service)

"Toronto police are looking for at least three men and a driver after a 67-year-old man was tied up and beaten during an attempted robbery.

The attack happened shortly after 7 a.m. on Sept. 27 at a home in Yonge-Eglinton, according to police.

Two men armed with guns and dressed as construction workers complete with hard hats and dust masks knocked on the front door, police allege.

"They forced their way into the victim's home, repeatedly demanding money," said Lauren Pogue, acting inspector with Toronto police's hold up squad, during a news conference Wednesday morning."
"When police investigated, they discovered the same men, along with another man, appeared to have cased out the neighbourhood almost a week earlier, as someone waited for them inside a vehicle."

 

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Toronto Police Service :: News Release #42585

"The men are described as black, mid-twenties, and tall. They were dressed in construction clothing, yellow or white hardhats, black pants and carrying a blue and white cooler. The suspect vehicle is described as a dark grey/blue 2007 or 2008 Nissan Maxima, and it was parked on a side street."

 

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Includes sexual assault.
Oct 09, 2021 • rbbm. Apologies for inadvertent excessive bolding.
MANDEL: Violent home invasion solved by a band-aid | Toronto Sun

Two men disguised as construction workers are sought for a home invasion that occurred near Yonge St. and Eglinton Ave. on Sept. 27, 2018. (Chris Doucette/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
''On a fall morning three years ago, a prominent physician was eating breakfast before leaving for work when there was a knock on the door of his north Toronto home.''

''Figuring they were doing work in the area for the city, the 69-year-old widower opened the door.

It would be a terrible mistake. Each man grabbed one of his arms as they forced their way inside.

“We want the money,” they demanded while flashing what looked like a gun. “There’s a safe in this house and it has money in it and we want the money.”

The doctor, whose name is protected by a publication ban, didn’t know what they were talking about. He didn’t have a safe. He offered them the cash in his wallet.

''Their response was to begin striking him in the head with a hard object.


His pants and underwear were removed and his hands tied. They kicked and hit him, breaking his nose, wrist and a finger, fracturing his ribs and perforating an eardrum.
He’s pretty sure he was also Tasered in the shoulder.


“I was afraid I might die,” he told Ontario Superior Court. “I was not sure whether I was going to survive this brutal beating and it was absolutely horrendous. Definitely the worst day of my life.”

''After Toronto Police finished dusting for fingerprints and taking photographs, they left and the doctor’s stepdaughter went upstairs to check if any of her late mother’s jewelry had been stolen. That’s when she noticed the bandage on the carpet of the master bedroom closet.

''She’d obviously seen enough TV to know that it should be placed in a baggie and handed over to investigators. Sure enough, the DNA came back and police now had a suspect.

A search warrant for Owusu-Sarpong’s Jane St. apartment turned up three hard hats — two of them bloodstained with DNA traceable to the doctor — two construction vests, zip ties, a Taser and a loaded handgun.

Owusu-Sarpong, 32, was sentenced this week to 16 years in prison.

“This was a horrific home invasion,” said Justice Jane Kelly. “A 69-year-old man was viciously attacked and sexually assaulted in his own home. He was a vulnerable victim.”

She found that stripping him from the waist down was conduct of a “sexual nature.”