FAMILY BOUND DURING ROBBERY; AUTHORITIES PROBING LINKS TO OTHER CRIMES.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer The Antelope Valley's fourth home invasion home invasion n. Burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home. Noun 1. home invasion - burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home robbery in two weeks victimized a Lancaster couple and their teen-age daughter, who were bound and robbed of jewelry, weapons and the family's sport-utility vehicle sport-u·til·i·ty vehicle n. Abbr. SUV A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a roomy body, designed for off-road travel. , sheriff's officials said. Officials said a man, a teen-age boy and a teen-age girl entered the two-story home in the 2800 block of West Lingard Street at approximately 4 a.m. ``We have no idea how they got into the house,'' said Deputy Theresa Dawson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . After tying up a man, woman and 16-year-old girl with duct tape, the trio went through drawers, taking jewelry, personal items and several handguns. ``They pretty much ransacked ran·sack tr.v. ran·sacked, ran·sack·ing, ran·sacks 1. To search or examine thoroughly. 2. To search carefully for plunder; pillage. the house,'' Dawson said. ``It's unknown if they used the victim's guns against them.'' The trio left in the victims' Chevy Blazer. ``It took them half an hour to untie themselves,'' Dawson said of the residents. It was unknown whether the victims were injured. Officials said they are investigating whether any of the earlier robberies are related to the latest. In two of the earlier robberies, the intruders were white. In the third, they were African-American; four teen-agers have been arrested for that crime. The first robbery took place early Feb. 28, when two men with handguns broke 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 the victim replied, ``There is no dope,'' they rummaged through drawers, deputies said. They left with the victim's 1995 Mercury Tracer, a pit bull dog, jewelry and two telephones. A day later, three boys and a girl climbed through a window in an elderly couple's downtown Lancaster home shortly after 1 a.m. and beat the residents 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. The foursome left the home with a rifle and the couple's Toyota Avalon. In a pre-dawn robbery in Palmdale on Wednesday, two men broke into a home in the 38500 block of 31st Street East and held a couple at knifepoint knife·point n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. . The couple were not injured but their hands and feet were bound with duct tape. The robbers escaped with two .22-caliber rifles, $1,000 in cash and a 1982 Dodge Plymouth. |
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