The man wearing a black mask and holding a silver handgun had two questions for the 17-year-old girl who answered the front door.
Are your parents home? And where is the safe?
That was only the beginning of what a 47-year-old Bristol Township man told police Monday morning — barely two days after he said an armed, masked man entered his Crabtree Drive home, tied up his family and demanded to be paid $10,000 at first, then $15,000 and finally $20,000.
Hours after the man appeared at police headquarters, two Bristol Township men were in custody for what is described as a home invasion robbery/extortion plot. Both suspects are in Bucks County prison, each in lieu of 10 percent of $1 million bail and facing a long list of charges.
The man told police that his teenage daughter was home alone about 10:30 p.m. Saturday when the armed, masked man — who police identified as Kalyn Rahshun Walker, 22, of Fleetwing Drive — appeared at the front door looking for the homeowner and his wife.
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| Kalyn Rahshun Walker (left) Jimmy Lee Wilson |
Walker ordered the girl to take him to her parents’ bedroom, where he rummaged through a dresser, according to police. He also asked the girl where her parents kept the safe. While the man was in the bedroom, the girl’s parents arrived home.
Walker allegedly demanded that all three empty their pockets and turn over their cell phones, which he immediately attempted to smash. Next, he forced the mother and daughter to tie each other’s hands with rope from a black backpack he had brought with him and then locked them both in a downstairs bathroom, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Walker continued to demand money from the man, and had him empty all the dresser drawers, police said. He also told the man that he knew his son, daughter and wife and that he better turn over $10,000 by 5:45 p.m. Monday — which the victim took as a threat against his family, police said.
Before leaving the home, Walker tied up the man with shoelaces and took him to the same bathroom where his wife and daughter were locked and told them to count to 30 before leaving the room, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Walker allegedly left with $56 stolen from the family.
Police said they didn’t know if the homeowner knew Walker. No one in the family was injured.
On Monday, the man told police that Walker had contacted him several times on his cell phone, demanding $15,000, with a caveat that if he was given $20,000 he would tell the man who sent him to his home.
The man was told to put the money in a black bag and drop it in a commercial trash bin behind a hardware store on Route 413 and Ford Road.
After the man — who told police he was afraid to report the crime immediately — came forward, Bristol Township police called in Bucks County detectives and its narcotics and detective units to arrange surveillance at the drop point.
Police observed a white Ford Crown Victoria with dark tinted windows pull into a parking lot near the hardware store. Two men were in the car and appeared to be watching the area before driving toward a nearby apartment complex behind the hardware store drop point, police said.
While parked in the apartment complex, police observed that the driver — identified as Jimmy Lee Wilson Jr., 29, of Bath Road in Bristol Township — was wearing a black neoprene mask with only his eyes exposed, according to court documents.
The homeowner drove to the drop point as directed and left a bag containing sealed bank money envelopes containing $100 in $1 bills, according to the affidavit.
A short time later, a police officer saw a man — later identified as Walker — dressed in black wearing a mask over the lower half of his face hoist himself up and lean into the trash bin and retrieve the bag, according to the affidavit.
Walker started walking along the front of the hardware store, but took off when he saw police approaching, court records show. During a foot chase, he dropped the black bag and a cell phone, police said. He was quickly taken into police custody.
Meanwhile, other police officers were watching the white Ford, which was parked at the apartment complex. No one was in the car, but police saw Wilson standing near a trash bin facing toward the hardware store. He was taken into custody as he walked toward the Ford.
Walker allegedly admitted his involvement in the home invasion and robbery.
He told police when he didn’t find the amount of money that he believed was in the house Saturday night, he told the homeowner to get $10,000 from the bank Monday and he’d tell him where to leave it, according to police. Walker also admitted to increasing the amount to $15,000 and then $20,000, police said.
Walker also said that Wilson was waiting in the Crown Victoria when Walker went to pick up the money in the trash bin, police said.
The men were arrested and arraigned Tuesday morning before District Judge Robert Roth on charges of robbery with immediate threat of injury, burglary, theft extortion, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint, possessing an instrument of crime, conspiracy and related charges.
“If it wasn’t for the great coordinated effort of the Bristol Township Detectives Unit, the Bristol Township Narcotics Unit, and the Bucks County detectives, this case would have not been solved so quickly,” Bristol Township Lt. Terry Hughes added.
Jo Ciavaglia: 215-949-4181; email: jciavaglia@phillyBurbs.com; Twitter: @jociavaglia
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