Siblings Call 911 In Home Invasion

BARGERSVILLE, Ind. -- A brother and sister whispered to a 911 operator as three burglars rummaged through their belongings at their house Wednesday, leading police to the home and arrests.

Wyatt Heath, 20, and his sister, Amanda, 21, were calm and quiet as they talked to the operator, hoping to keep the intruders from noticing they were home, 6News' Renee Jameson reported.

Wyatt Heath, home from Indiana University, was upstairs in the secluded home when he heard intruders break in through the back door. He called 911 from a cell phone.

"We're being robbed," Heath told the operator. "I'm upstairs."

Amanda Heath, who was in her bedroom on the first floor, heard the noise, too. At first, she thought it was her brother's friends, but when she came out of her room, she saw three males trying to steal a television.

Terrified, Amanda grabbed a phone and called police, and the intruders apparently didn't see her.

"Everything's going to be alright. We've got people headed to help you out," the 911 operator told Amanda. "As long as you're on the phone with me, you're OK."

Help arrived within minutes. As a sheriff's deputy's car pulled up, the intruders were pulling out. They were called to the ground at gunpoint, but one of them wasn't there immediately.

"Face down, face down," said a deputy. "Two at gunpoint."

Deputies found the third suspect hiding under a deck after they arrested the other two.

Francisco Fernandez, Jackie Wayne Abbott and a 17-year-old male were arrested without further incident.

"Before they could even get out of the driveway, our patrol units stopped them right there," said Johnson County sheriff Lt. Phil Murphy.

All of the items were returned to the home, and investigators said the siblings did the right thing by hiding and calling 911.

"Never confront these people. You don't know how desperate they are. You don't know if they're armed," Murphy said.

The intruders did not have guns. Wyatt Heath told 6News that he thinks Abbott once dated his sister's friend and had been to the home before.