Cops In Connecticut Hunt For Suspects Who Strapped Credit Union Exec With Device, Ordered Him To Steal
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Police in Connecticut say they are searching for two suspects who apparently strapped a possible bomb to a credit union executive during a failed home invasion-robbery plot.
New Britain police released details Tuesday about the case, which drew FBI agents to the scene Monday and prompted school lockdowns. No one was injured.
Authorities say two men confronted Matthew Yussman, 46, at his Bristol home early Monday, then bound him and his mother, WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief reported.
Cops In Connecticut Hunt For Suspects Who Strapped Credit Union Exec With Device, Ordered Him To Steal
The suspects forced Yussman to wear what looked like a bomb and sent him to get money from Achieve Financial Credit Union in New Britain while they stayed with his mother. Yussman is the credit union's chief financial officer.
Yussman was able to alert one of his employees by phone, and the robbery was foiled, police said.
State police rendered the device safe and sent it for testing to see if it was real.
The men escaped the scene in an older-model white four-door Mazda sedan, police said.
Descriptions of the two would-be robbers since, police said, they wore masks and goggles. The both spoke English with an unspecified accent.
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