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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Men break into downtown apartment seeking drugs, money in targeted crime

Madison police are looking for two gun-wielding men who broke into a Madison woman's home Friday morning looking for drugs and drug money.  

 

The 22-year-old victim said the men were wearing black bandanas and carrying handguns when they forced entry into her home on the 800 block of Gorham Street. According to a police report, the men said they were looking for specific people before fleeing with the victim's laptop.  

 

Police describe the two perpetrators as white males in their late teens to early 20s, about 5'8\ and dressed in all black with their faces covered. The victim, who police said is not a UW-Madison student, was not injured in the incident.  

 

Madison Police Department public information officer Joel DeSpain said police believe the crime was a targeted robbery. He said police believe it is unrelated to the recent string of random robberies in the downtown area, including a Nov. 3 incident in which a UW-Madison junior was robbed at gunpoint outside the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house on Langdon Street.  

 

""This was nothing similar to what we've seen for instance down on Langdon Street or something like that,"" DeSpain said. ""There should be no reason for heightened concern in the campus community because of this particular crime.

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