A woman was forced to lay down in her bed while a pair of thieves ransacked her Los Angeles County home on Monday night, authorities say.
Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to the 2400 block of Pocatello Avenue in Rowland Heights on a call of a home invasion around 9 p.m., according to a spokesperson from LASD’s Walnut station.
“When the deputies arrived on scene, they found a 79-year-old female victim,” the spokesperson said. “She reported hearing noises in the house and locked herself in her bedroom.”
She then reported that two men wearing surgical masks forced their way into the locked bedroom and ordered her to lie down in her bed as they went through the property, the spokesperson elaborated.
The suspects demanded the woman’s money and jewelry, which she was unable to give them, so they went through her purse and then gave it back to her, according to LASD.
They then fled the scene in an unknown direction; it was not immediately established whether they got away on foot or in a vehicle.
Video from the scene obtained by KTLA shows deputies speaking with multiple people outside of the home, although their connections to the incident was not clear.
The 79-year-old victim was uninjured, authorities said.
Nancy Fontan contributed to this report.
