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Massive police search for Valencia Park home invasion robbers - The CW San Diego

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) - A man is behind bars Friday morning after police found him in a car stolen during a violent home- invasion robbery in Valencia Park, but another man and woman in that car were able to escape.  The robbery and assault early Thursday morning left the victim pistol-whipped and beaten unconscious, apparently by a group of masked men looking for the victim's stepson. The group was armed with a gun, baseball bat and golf clubs. They left the victim's home in his wife's Lexus sedan.  Police spotted that car later in the day and gave chase, but two of the three people inside were able to escape. The incident began around 3:30 in Valencia Park on Thursday at the 5200 block of Cervantes Avenue and Bonita Road. "The resident was sleeping inside his house, he heard a commotion out front. He opened his front door where he was confronted by four masked suspects armed with various weapons. One had a gun, one had a baseball bat and a couple of them had golf c...

Suspect in Haverford Twp. killing, Overbrook Park shooting arrested in Georgia

HAVERFORD TWP., Pa. (WPVI) -- U.S. Marshals have apprehended the man wanted for a killing in Haverford Township, Delaware County that followed a burst of gunfire in the Overbrook Park section of Philadelphia late last month. Derrick Rollins, 24, was taken into custody Tuesday in Decatur, Georgia. Authorities say he initially attempted to hide from marshals, but eventually surrendered to K9 units after he was spotted by surveillance teams at an apartment complex with a female associate. Rollins has addresses in the 5100 block of Locust Street and the 4000 block of North A Street in Philadelphia. His arrest was based upon information developed by U.S. Marshals in Philadelphia suggesting he had fled to Georgia. Rollins is currently being held in the Dekalb County Jail pending extradition . This all began around 5 p.m. Saturday, July 29th, in the 1600 block of North 77th Street . According to police, a witness in Philadelphia's Overbrook Park section saw a man in a red hooded sweat...