Home invaders rob couple

Police have charged a manand a teenage girl in a violent, knifepoint home invasion in Lower Macungie Township where a 90-year-old man was assaulted Wednesday, according to court records.

Using descriptions from the victims and surveillance footage, police arrested the pair within 16 minutes of responding to the 911 call, records show.

Terrence Antonio Jubilee, 22, with no home address listed, and Amber Marie Wendling, 17, of the 5400 block of Hamilton Boulevard in Allentown, were charged with aggravated assault, burglary and robbery. Jubilee was also charged with using an incapacitation device, that is, a stun gun.

The pair was arraigned Wednesday night before on-duty District Judge Tom Creighton and sent to Lehigh County Jail under $50,000 bail.

According to court records: Police were called to a report of a home invasion at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the 700 block of North Broad Street in Lower Macungie Township.

Police found the 88-year-old woman and her 90-year-old husband. The man was on the floor, bleeding from the face, left hand and left knee. Hewas taken to the hospital.

The woman was not injured, having managed to escape the home during the attack.

She told police her doorbell rang just before 2 p.m. and she went to answer. She saw a teenage girl and a man she did not recognize and before she could ask any questions, the girl forced their way inside.

The teenager, later identified as Wendling, held a knife to the woman’s throat and demanded she reveal whereshe kept her money.

The woman’s husband heard the commotion and came out of the bathroom in his wheelchair. He said the man, identified by police as Jubilee, threw him to the floor.

During the commotion, the woman fled the house to get help.

But the attack on her husband continued. He told police he was hit in the face with what felt like a stun gun and blacked out. He could not recall anything that happened afterwards.

State police reviewed neighbors’ surveillance footage and were able to see the two suspects running from the home toward Hamilton Boulevard.

A short time later, police learned that two people matching the descriptions of Wendling and Jubilee were spotted at the Speedway Gas Station, 3809 Hamilton Boulevard. They were detained at 2:16 p.m.

Police say Jubilee had a folding knife that matched the description of the one used in the attack and a stun gun.

The 88-year-old woman was able to identify the pair as the same who forced their way into her home.