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Police are searching for the last of three men accused of breaking into a West Knoxville home last month and holding a family at gunpoint in order to steal one wallet and a PlayStation video game console, court records show.
Abdul Kadir-Sayyid Penn, 18, and Calvin Lalique Roper, 20, were arrested after the Jan. 15 home invasion on Glen Brook Drive. They face charges including three counts of aggravated kidnapping and one count of aggravated burglary.
The third suspect in the home invasion, whom police asked the News Sentinel not to name in this story, remains at large.
At 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 15, Knoxville Police Department officers responded to a reported home invasion in the 6700 block of Glen Brook Drive.
A female resident told police she was inside her bedroom when she heard a loud noise outside and looked out a window to see a man she thought to be her 20-year-old son's friend, according to an arrest warrant.
The woman walked into the hallway, where she saw two other men. One, who wore a bandanna to cover his face, had a handgun trained on the back of her elder son's head, according to the warrant.
One man ordered the woman to get into the bathroom; he shut the door behind her. The other ordered the son to go into his bedroom and told him not to move, according to the warrant.
The woman's 18-year-old son arrived and entered the home. He told police a man standing in the hall "turned and put a gun to his head and told him to look at the ground," the warrant reads. The younger son was then put into the bedroom with the elder son.
The two men inside the home grabbed an iPhone from the mother, a PlayStation and the younger son's wallet, according to the warrant.
The men left the house, joined the third men who was waiting outside, and got in a car that was parked one street away. When the men got into the car, "they dumped a fair amount of trash onto the street," the warrant reads, resulting in criminal littering charges.
The younger son identified the three men as Penn, Roper and the third suspect, according to the warrant. Roper was the one waiting outside. The elder son left the scene before officers arrived.
Police tracked the stolen iPhone and found it intact on the side of the street about a half-mile from the house, according to the warrant.
Roper was arrested and released after making bond on Jan. 25; Penn was arrested on Feb. 6 and remained in jail Monday in lieu of $55,000 bond. Roper's mugshot was not immediately available Monday.
Reporter Travis Dorman can be reached at travis.dorman@knoxnews.com or on Twitter @travdorman.