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Home Invaders Pistol Whip Man and Dunk Him in Bathtub, Prosecutors Say

By Nicholas Rizzi | August 22, 2014 1:08pm
 Anas Mustafa, 23, and Burhon Ajredini, 21, both of Brooklyn, were arrested for a Staten Island home invasion in which the victim was beaten with a gun and submerged in a bathtub filled with water, prosecutors said.
Anas Mustafa, 23, and Burhon Ajredini, 21, both of Brooklyn, were arrested for a Staten Island home invasion in which the victim was beaten with a gun and submerged in a bathtub filled with water, prosecutors said.
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MARINERS HARBOR — A Staten Island man was pistol-whipped and submerged in a bathtub filled with water by thieves during in an early-morning home invasion this week, prosecutors said.

Anas Mustafa, 23, and Burhon Ajredini, 21, both of Brooklyn, were arrested and charged with robbery, burglary, criminal obstruction of breathing, and unlawful imprisonment at their arraignment on Thursday.

On Tuesday, Mustafa, Ajredini and an unspecified number of other suspects kicked open the front door of the victim's Walker Drive home around 1:50 a.m., and Ajedini stuck a gun inside the victim's mouth, according to court documents.

The 21-year-old victim was targeted by his assailants because of a dispute over money, a law enforcement source said.

Ajredini struck the victim several times in the head with a  gun, told him to "be quiet" and tied him to a chair with tape, prosecutors said. The assailants filled a bathtub with water, placed a shower curtain over the victim's head and then dunked him under, court papers said. 

During the break-in, the invaders searched the home and grabbed sneakers, a wallet, a cellphone, two necklaces and cash from inside, according to court papers.

About an hour later, Mustafa and Ajredini were picked up by police near the victim's home. Officers found a .22 caliber revolver on Ajredini, according to court papers.

The pair was brought back to the Walker Drive home and identified by the victim, court papers read.

Both suspects admitted to police that they went into the home and searched for property downstairs, but neither said they were upstairs when the victim was being submerged in water, the court documents said.

"Everyone played a part by looking and searching for materialistic things," Ajredini told police, according to court documents. "I was downstairs, not up where he was getting drowned."

The invasion left the victim with swelling and lacerations on his nose and to back of the head, a cut to the side of his head, and bruising and scratching on the arms, chest and shoulders, court documents said.

Mustafa was previously arrested in July for assault, and Ajredini was arrested in 2012 for petit larceny in Brooklyn, according to court documents and public records.