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Masked intruders terrorize Eastport couple

Armed Suffolk County police emergency service officers outside

Photo credit: James Carbone | Armed Suffolk County police emergency service officers outside a home at on Union Avenue in Eastport. (Jan. 7, 2011)

Two masked men terrorized an Eastport couple Friday, binding them with duct tape and plastic ties and ransacking their house, police said, in a home invasion with echoes of a notorious Connecticut case.

The assailants - one armed with a small black handgun - then ordered the 38-year-old husband to go get more cash or his wife, 37, would be harmed, according to police. The husband drove alone...

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