A Chicago man has been charged three months after five men broke into a home in Munster, Indiana, tied up the family inside at gunpoint, and robbed them.
Munster police said at about 1 p.m. on October 27, 2023, at least four armed men broke into a home in the 1400-block of Park West Circle. They bound the family inside with zip ties and duct tape, beat them and took items including money and jewelry, police said.
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Surveillance video captured two vehicles fleeing the scene, one of which police said was at or near the home multiple times in the weeks before the home invasion. The vehicles were eventually found in Chicago on November 11 and November 14, where they were searched.
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Munster police said evidence in one of those cars led them to 47-year-old Elkin Castillo, who they found had multiple warrants for his arrest in Cook County.