Home Invaders Bind, Beat, Rob Family
Robbers tied up a Santa Ana family at home Wednesday night and escaped with money, jewelry and the family’s Mercedes, police said.
The robbers ransacked the apartment as Se Touch and Lap Ko and their five children were held on the floor at gunpoint, said Sgt. Dick Faust.
The family told police the robbers numbered two to four.
No one was seriously injured, and the car was recovered undamaged in Midway City, Faust said.
Touch, 60, came home from visiting a neighbor downstairs shortly after 8 p.m. to find his family tied up and robbers going through the apartment, police said.
He was pistol-whipped and then bound too, Faust said.
The value of the stolen property was unknown.
More than 150 home-invasion robberies have been reported in Santa Ana, Garden Grove and Westminster since 1991.
Most are carried out by Asian or Latino gangs, police say. Immigrant families often are targeted in the belief that they keep money and valuables at home.
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