PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island man who participated in a violent armed home invasion in which the victims were threatened with death has pleaded guilty to related charges.
Attorney General Peter Neronha announced Friday that 19-year-old Elijah Blyden, of Cranston, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery this week. Blyden is scheduled to be sentenced on July 31.
Authorities say three people forced their way into a Providence apartment last June. They held the family at gunpoint, bound them with cords, threatened them with two guns and a kitchen knife, and pistol-whipped one victim. The victims were robbed of cash and jewelry and the apartment was ransacked. As they left, the defendants threatened to kill the victims if they called police.
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Blyden’s two co-defendants have previously pleaded to charges arising from this home invasion.
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