Police: Homeowner was tied and beaten with hammer in targeted burglary
Police made one arrest and are continuing to search for additional suspects after a Dighton man was robbed and beaten with a hammer in his home on Saturday.
Dighton police said officers responded to the residence on Tremont Street for a report of a robbery in progress around 4 a.m. One of the officers who approached the back of the house said he heard crashing in the woods and saw the rear sliding glass door had been smashed.
A man and woman came out of the house and told the officer three or four men tied them up, held guns their heads, robbed them, and beat them with a hammer before fleeing the house toward the back yard, according to police.
“The male appeared to be severely beaten and was covered in blood,” police said.
According to authorities, the homeowner was able to escape and run to a neighbor’s home to call 911.
The other responding officer encountered a man sitting in a running car in front of the home. The man, later identified as Jessi Peralta, 26, of Lincoln, Rhode Island, was arrested. Police said he was charged in Taunton District Court on a spate of charges including of armed home invasion, attempted murder, armed robbery with a firearm, kidnapping, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He is being held on $25,000 bail.
Police said they believe incident was not a random act and that the resident was targeted.
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