Romanian national pleads guilty to charges related to home invasion, extortion of Connecticut couple
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Stefan Alexandru Barabas pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in a home invasion and extortion attempt. He and his accomplices claimed they had injected occupants with a "deadly virus."
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Shortly before midnight on April 15, 2007, Barabas and his accomplices Emanuel Nicolescu and Alexandru Lucian Nicolescu broke into a South Kent mansion wearing masks, brandishing knives and carrying Airsoft guns that resembled real firearms, per the release.
"The men bound and blindfolded two adult victims and injected each with a substance the intruders claimed was a deadly virus," the release states. "The intruders ordered the victims to pay $8.5 million or else they would be left to die from the lethal injection. When it became clear that the victims were not in position to meet the intruder's demands, the intruders drugged the two residents with a sleeping aid and fled in the homeowner's Jeep."
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