Middletown — Arianah Acevedo may be a social media influencer, but she has gotten more online exposure than she can deal with since she went public with her account of the terrifying invasion of her Middletown apartment by five men on Dec. 30.

"Those interviews caused a lot of chaos," she told a reporter who arrived at her door Friday morning to ask her to tell her story again.

She said the news stories had caused a "big social media frenzy."

Acevedo has shared surveillance video of the home invasion with some media outlets but declined to do so again.

"I just don't want to see myself on platforms anymore as my bedroom is being robbed," she explained.

"I don't want the situation to be worse than it is," she said.

Acevedo has been quoted as saying that she has a substantial following on social media and believes the invaders had been tracking her there, although she said she did not know them personally.

Five suspects in the home invasion were arrested shortly after the crime.

Police said they found one suspect near the scene. They say other four fled in a Cadillac sedan that crashed in North Haven as police pursued them. The four fled on foot but were arrested, police said.

Authorities identified the suspects as: Mykev Speights, 22, of no known address in New York state; Jordan McNeill, 19, of Binghamton, N.Y.; Angel Fragoso, 22, of Jersey City, N.J.; Dietrich Williams, now 21, of New York City; and Angel Martinez, 25 of New York City.

Online state Department of Correction records show that all five remained in jail Friday, held in lieu of bail ranging from $255,000 to $975,000.

All five face numerous charges, the most serious of which is home invasion, carrying a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years and a maximum of 25 years.

The five men also face a charge of first-degree kidnapping with a firearm, which carries 10 to 25 years in prison.

Speights had an open murder case when the home invasion occurred, according to a police report. Acevado had called police earlier that day at about 4:40 a.m. about a similar delivery scam, the report said. But she couldn't describe the potential suspect who knocked on her door claiming to be delivering a package and officers didn't find anything amiss, the report said.

Police received a report of a home invasion at her address about six hours later, according to the report. Video within her apartment shows Acevado answering the door with a gun in her hand, the report said. She initially tried to get the man in the FedEx vest just to leave the package, but he said he needed a signature, so she opened the door, she told police, according to the report.

She was quickly overpowered by several men who were asking where her money and jewelry was kept, she said, according to the report. She told them she didn't keep the items at the apartment since she had been robbed in September, the report said. The men made off with about $32,000 in designer clothing including a $4,000 Gucci coat and two Birkin bags worth $10,000, police said. The men also took the key to her 2022 Mercedes-Benz worth about $90,000 and the Glock handgun she was carrying, which had slipped out of her pocket, police said.

The key was recovered but the car was damaged when it apparently was struck by the suspects' vehicle as they were trying to flee, the report said. Some of the designer items and the gun were recovered when the suspects were taken into custody in North Haven, police said.

Middletown police said they learned of the incident Dec. 30 from a caller who reported seeing multiple masked men knocking on a neighbor's door and forcing their way in when the occupant opened the door, police said. The caller then heard screaming in the apartment and called police.

When officers arrived, police said, they saw multiple men running from the building. Most of the suspects got into a older, maroon Cadillac DTS sedan and fled, police said. One of the men did not make it to the car before the driver pulled away, so he ran away but was apprehended a short distance away on Pameacha Avenue, police said.

Officers entered the apartment and learned that two residents and their guest were victims of a home invasion. One resident and the guest had just freed themselves after being zip-tied by the invaders, police said.

Officers learned that someone had knocked on the apartment door and multiple male suspects forced their way in, police said. One resident was hit in the head with a gun after she refused demands to be zip-tied, police said.

The other resident and the guest then were forced into zip ties while the suspects stole property from the apartment, police said.

Other officers located the Cadillac on South Main Street, police said. The officers followed the car south on South Main Street into Durham, west on Route 22 in North Branford and north on Hartford Turnpike in North Haven.

The Cadillac crashed into another vehicle in the area of 1500 Hartford Turnpike, then hit a guardrail, police said. When the Cadillac stopped against the guardrail, police say, officers blocked it to prevent the suspects from driving away.

The four suspects got out of the Cadillac and tried to run away, police said. One of the pursuing officers had a police dog, which stopped one of the men, enabling police to take him into custody, according to police. Officers arrested the other three other men, police said.

Staff writer Lisa Backus contributed to this story.