by Rod Hughes

Sometimes, it pays to verify the address before you make an armed visit to a home. Two of at least four armed robbers are under arrest after the gang tried to assault the Santa Ana home of the former director of the National Police School yesterday.

Bright and early at 9 a.m. yesterday morning, the gang entered the home of Colon Bermudez and covered Bermudez and a relative at gunpoint. They tied Bermudez and the other victim up with adhesive tape and went to work efficiently to take valuables and computers out to a waiting truck. But an unidentified person had already alerted police who were waiting for the truck as it drove off, stopping it barely 100 yards from the ransacked home and arresting the two occupants.

The other bandits, still inside the home, managed to escape and are currently being sought. Bermudez and his companion, released from the tape by police, were shaken but unhurt. The two detained suspects are minors, police said.