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3 arrested after federal judge robbed at gunpoint at home

 
Published Dec. 6, 2015

CINCINNATI — A federal judge and her husband, a prominent former class-action trial attorney, were robbed at gunpoint in their suburban Cincinnati home Friday night, and three suspects were arrested almost immediately, police said.

Judge Susan Dlott and her husband, Stanley Chesley, were unnerved but fine after the ordeal, Lt. Rich White of the Indian Hill Rangers Police Department said Saturday.

Late Friday night, three men with guns kicked in the basement door of the couple's home in suburban Indian Hill, White said. The three had begun removing items from the house when they were confronted by Chesley, White said.

The couple were held at gunpoint while they were robbed of money, credit cards and identification, and then taken into the garage, where the suspects apparently planned to steal a car, White said.

But in the garage, the suspects heard a noise and ran out, he said. The couple fled into the woods, made it to a neighbor's and called for help about 10:40 p.m.

Almost at the same time, police in neighboring Madeira pulled over a vehicle for a stop sign violation and determined the individuals in the car may have been involved in the robbery, White said. Personal items from Dlott and Chesley's house were in the car, he said.

Three suspects were being held in the Hamilton County Justice Center on Saturday, charged with two counts each of aggravated robbery and abduction.