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November 18, 2009

Testimony resumes in home invasion trial

WILKES-BARRE -- A 76-year-old Martha Caputo testified it was an "ugly nightmare" the night she and her husband, Nicholas, were brutally beaten in what was supposed to be a robbery just over one year ago.

Martha Caputo, of Hazleton, testified two masked men came into her Pine Street home and attacked her. One man attempted to smother her with a shoe box and hit her in the face several times over, while asking her to hand over money and that he would kill her.

Prosecutors say the masked men were Daniel Pinkney and Kevin Fisher. The two are currently standing trial on a slew of charges related to the home invasion last November.

Martha Caputo's husband, Nicholas, testiied he was in bed about to fall asleep when he heard his wife screaming their son's name. When he came down the steps, he saw a masked man holding a gun to his wife's head. Nicholas Caputo testified he tried to get out when he was hit three times in the head and began bleeding profusely.

After a few minutes, Nicholas Caputo was at his son's house, just three houses away, telling him the intruders were killing his mother.

Thomas "Blaise" Caputo entered his parents house to find his mother bleeding on the couch and their home of more than 50 years destroyed with blood stains on the carpet and walls.

Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Peter Paul Olszewski, Jr., said testimony will continue this afternoon after a lunch recess.

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