Early morning home invasion under investigation

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EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - We have new developments in an early morning home invasion robbery.

“When you put in the confining people at gunpoint and threatening to shoot them, things like that, you’ve really upped the ante,” says Sgt. Jason Cullum with the Evansville Police Department.

It happened around 3:45 a.m. on Wednesday on the Southeast Side of Evansville. Police say it was a stolen cell phone that led them to the three suspects.

Police tell us this was a random act. No shots were fired, and no one was injured.

Police say the victims told them two masked men kicked in the door and held them at gunpoint while they took numerous things from the home, including the cell phone. Police say they tracked the phone to a home on Jefferson Avenue where they saw two men and a woman get out of a car.

Police say they saw some of the stolen items in the car.

Police say they arrested 18-year old Eric Ogburn, 19-year old Donavan Young, and 20-year old Alicia Sivils after a brief standoff. They are all facing armed robbery and burglary charges.

“When you come home and your house has been burglarized, you feel very violated. You feel like people targeted you for a specific reason even if it was completely random. It’s very personal. Imagine if your sitting in your living room when that front door gets kicked in how much more traumatic that is. That’s why the charges are enhanced if they’re armed and you see a lot more charges associated with this crime than if they went into that same house when no one was there,” says Sgt. Cullum.

All three suspects are in the Vanderburgh County Jail without bond. They all have criminal histories.

Police tell us this follows the trend they are seeing of younger suspects committing more violent offenses.

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