Police looking for five intruders who robbed Merriam motel guest

Merriam police are looking for five people who robbed a motel guest early Monday.

Officers responded about 4:30 a.m. to the robbery call in the 6400 block of East Frontage Road. The 45-year-old victim told officers that he had answered his motel room door for a woman he knew as Crystal.

After he opened the door, four men knocked him to the floor and tied him up with a sheet. Before fleeing in a white truck, they took cash and equipment used to locate cable lines.

The victim described Crystal as white, about 31 years old, about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 115 pounds with brown hair. She wore blue jeans and a white shirt.

He described one of the men as Hispanic, about 5-foot-8 and 180 pounds, wearing blue jeans and a flannel shirt.

The other three men were white, he said. He described one as 6-foot-2, about 240 pounds, bald, wearing blue jeans and a flannel shirt. He said the second man was 5-foot-10, about 160 pounds, with long sandy blond hair and dressed in blue jeans. The third man was 6 feet tall and about 180 pounds wearing a black shirt and black baseball cap.

Anyone with information should call the Merriam Police at 913-322-5560 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (816-474-8477).

This story was originally published August 31, 2015 at 10:38 AM with the headline "Police looking for five intruders who robbed Merriam motel guest."