Alleged Towamencin Home Invasion Robber Brothers Head to Trial

After a harrowing testimony at a preliminary hearing Dec. 5 in District Judge Harold Borek's Lansdale courtroom by one of two brothers bound by zip-ties and threatened with a rock, car battery and kitchen knife by four home invaders who later robbed the Chadbourne Court home in Towamencin of $8,000 cash and electronics, two of the four alleged robbers—Phereourn Sream, 24, and Phrira Sream, 26, both of the 5500 block of North Fairhill Street in Philadelphia—had each of their 20 criminal charges held for trial, according to The Reporter.
The other two robbers are still at-large, described as an Asian man and an African-American man, and the investigation is ongoing.
The Sreams remain incarcerated on $500,000 cash bail. Each is charged with two counts of felony robbery-threatening immediate serious injury, two felony conspiracy to commit robbery counts, felony burglary of an overnight accommodation, felony criminal trespassing, two misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint, two misdemeanor counts of false imprisonment, two misdemeanor counts of simple assault, two counts of misdemeanor reckless endangerment, two misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, felony theft, criminal mischief and possessing an instrument of crime, police said.
Towamencin Township Police Criminal Investigations Unit had determined that the home invasion robbery was targeted and was connected to a previous incident in Philadelphia, police said.
Read more on the hearing here.