Two days after a brazen home invasion, police in Pueblo are working to identify three suspects they say brutally assaulted a homeowner before kidnapping his wife.
Sgt. Charlie Taylor said a drug debt owed by the husband might have been a reason three gunmen stormed the house in the 2900 block of Ontario Street at 7:25 p.m Friday.
At a news conference, Taylor said the gunmen were sophisticated and good at covering their tracks. He said the three could be part of a drug ring who were collecting on a debt.
The men locked the victims’ children, 2 and 5, in a closet before taking the man and his 26-year-old wife into a separate room and beating him, he said.
They bound and blindfolded the wife and left in a 2007 gray Dodge Magnum. Police began looking for the suspects and found the abandoned vehicle a few hours later.
Police started a dialogue with the Spanish-speaking suspects when they called the husband and demanded a ransom for his wife.
Approximately 12 hours after the initial kidnapping, the woman was found Saturday wandering unharmed along I-25 north of Pueblo.
Threats were made on her life, Taylor said.
