Foursome charged in home invasions

Albuquerque, N.M. (KRQE) - Three teenagers and one adult are in jail accused of carrying out extremely violent home invasions in Albuquerque.

Albuquerque Police say 19 year old Xavier Crawford, 22 year old Cory Bates, 19 year old Cassandra Apodaca and 16 year old Shana Heaney are all connected to at least two home invasions over the past two months that have left the victims beaten and in one case raped.

"They are extremely violent" says APD Sergeant Trish Hoffman "Some of the things they did to their victims was horrific, on top of that they were beaten with weapons."

One of those home invasions happened in November on the 3100 block of Cardenas N.E.

The victims, two men, told police that a young girl, now identified by police as Shana Heaney came to their door asking for help saying she had been kicked out of the car by her boyfriend. The men say they talked with Heaney at length and invited her to come back later that nigh to hang out with them.

The men say when Heaney returned, Crawford and Bates were with her. They were armed with a shotgun and used it to beat the two men, and sodomize one of them. They then robbed the men and fled.

Police say the foursome is also linked to a home invasion in mid December on Brighton N.E. The victims of that crime say they answered the door and two men, now identified as Crawford and Bates stormed in and robbed them. While police say the victim did not recognize the offenders she did remember seeing her old friend Shana Heaney driving around in her neighborhood that day something she thought was unusual.

Police found Heaney and say she started talking.

APD Sergeant Trish Hoffman says while they have evidence and witness testimony linking the foursome to the two home invasions, they are looking to see if the group could be connected to even more unsolved home invasions in the Albuquerque area.