4 HOME INVADERS BEAT, ROB SENIORS.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer An elderly Lancaster couple were beaten, bound and robbed by three men and a woman who broke into their Date Avenue home, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County sheriff's officials said. The robbers climbed through a bedroom window about 1 a.m. Monday and beat Donald Bouchers, 79, and Margarete Bouchers, 75, with a croquet croquet (krōkā`), lawn game in which the players hit wooden balls with wooden mallets through a series of 9 or 10 wire arches, or wickets. The first player to hit the posts placed at each end of the field wins. mallet mallet, n a hammering instrument. mallet, hard, n a small hammer with a leather-, rubber-, fiber-, or metal-faced head; used to supply force or to supplement hand force for the compaction of foil or amalgam and to seat cast , deputies said. ``It was a pretty vicious attack,'' Lt. Axel Anderson Axel Anderson (born Axel Levy on December 11, 1929) is a German born Puerto Rican actor. Anderson was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. In 1936 Anderson's family escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to Paraguay. said. The robbers tied up the couple with duct tape duct tape n. A usually silver adhesive tape made of cloth mesh coated with a waterproof material, originally designed for sealing heating and air-conditioning ducts. Noun 1. , then fled in the couple's 1996 Toyota Avalon, deputies said. They stole a rifle and other items. The woman was able to free herself and run to a neighbor's house. Both suffered moderate upper-body injuries, deputies said. It was the Antelope Valley's second home invasion robbery in two days, but deputies said the culprits were not the same: it was two white men in the first robbery, four African-Americans in the second. Early Sunday, two white men with handgbroke into a Quartz Hill couple's home, bound them with duct tape and beat the man. The robbers continually asked ``Where's the dope?'' and when victim John Carpenter replied, ``There is no dope,'' they rummaged through drawers, deputies said. The Quartz Hill robbers left with the victim's 1995 Mercury tracer, a pit bull dog, jewelry and two telephones, deputies said. |
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