Yesterday’s break-in at Seagull condominiums marked another in a series of at least a dozen home invasions this year.

Yesterday, two crime scene detectives wearing protective suits and latex gloves declined to comment on the 4am Thursday break-in.

Seagull managers also declined to comment, directing all enquiries to police.

The incident occurred at 3:50am in apartment No. 33, at the back of the complex’s roadside building, when three masked men broke into the unsecured room at the rear of the building, tying up two of the three male occupants.

The assailants bound the two with duct tape, police said, while the third “slept undisturbed through the incident”.

“One of the offenders was in possession of a hand gun which was discharged in the kitchen area, although no one was injured,” the statement said, describing the suspects as “black males, slim build and tall, one being about 6’ 3”.

All were wearing hoodies and denim jeans, police said, “with their faces covered.”

The trio stole an Apple Mac laptop, an IPod and cell phones.

The episode marks at least the 12^th home invasion this year, sparking police concerns.

On 6 January, assailants robbed a pizza delivery man outside a home in Patrick’s Island.

On 15 January, a masked man broke into the Capt Curry home of a West Bay man about 7pm, brandishing a firearm and stealing a wallet and two cell phones. No shots were fired and the assailant escaped on foot.

Police later described the suspect as of slim build and between 5’10” and 6ft tall. He was wearing a black mask and a long-sleeved black shirt and long black trousers.

The same day, only hours later, two masked men with a knife and a gun approached a man outside his Palm Dale, George Town home, stealing a bag with an undisclosed sum of cash.

Other January incidents occurred on 9 January, 18 January, 19 January, 24 January and 31January.

On 2 February, three men broke into a home on Magellan Quay in Governor’s Harbour, holding an elderly American couple at gunpoint while they took a range of electronic items. The robbery was the third at the home in two years. Only one man has been apprehended and convicted in the home invasion.

On 7 Feb, in George Town’s Palm Dale area, three masked, armed men broke into the home of a 35-year-old male and his 32-year-old female companion, robbing them of the receipts from a round-robin tournament at a local bar.

On 13 February, just before midnight, two masked men, one wielding a handgun, confronted three men playing dominoes in the front yard of a Greenwood Drive home in George Town. Fleeing on foot with cash taken from the dominoes players, they fired one shot into the air.

On March 6, victims reported a burglary at Lakeside Villas on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway, in which, they told police, four masked men with machetes entered an apartment and tied up the three occupants, stealing cash and jewellery.

Also in January, the courts addressed a number of home invasions from 2011,

On 3 January, Gregory Myles was remanded in custody for a Christmas morning George Town home burglary of a wallet containing credit/debit cards, US$200, CI$100 and other items.

On 4 January, Charlton Ebanks appeared in court, charged with  a 15 November West Bay Road burglary of $9,500 worth of electronics and jewellery, and two 16 November Snug Harbour break-ins, in which he and an accomplice stole more electronics and jewellery.

On 8 February, Al Pearson, 37, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to a 13 October residential burglary he said he committed to feed his cocaine habit.