Orem home invasion not random

By Jens Dana and Sara Israelsen-Hartley Deseret News Published: Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 12:05 p.m. MDT OREM — Police say a home-invasion burglary Thursday afternoon was not a case of mistaken identity but a planned attack on a place assumed to have drugs and money. Orem Officers were locked in a nearly four-hour standoff with individuals inside an apartment at 1127 W. 675 North, which began around 11 a.m. Thursday. Police believed at least three of the individuals had brutally attacked residents of a home around 2 a.m. Thursday morning. Orem Police Lt. Doug Edwards said three masked men armed with a handgun and baseball bat broke into the home at 1055 E. 800 North where five individuals ages 20 to 21 were sleeping. A 19-year-old man who tried to fight against the men was hit repeatedly with the bat. The men stole electronics,... [read full story]