Robbers Take $2,000 From Man’s Home

Detectives were searching Tuesday for a pair of robbers who charged through a Thousand Oaks man’s front door and robbed him at knifepoint, authorities said.

The robbers, wearing dark clothes and bandannas to cover their faces, barged into the home about 11 p.m. Monday, while the man, 23-year-old Peter Booth, was watching television in the living room, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department .

Booth tried to struggle with the robbers, but one of them put a knife to his back and he gave up, authorities said.

While one of the robbers held Booth, the other went straight to the bedroom and took about $2,000 in cash stashed in a dresser drawer, authorities said.

“It looks like the suspects probably knew the victim,” said Det. Joe Braga of the east county sheriff’s major crimes division.

Braga said that Booth had the cash because he was getting ready to go on vacation.

The suspects are described as white men about 19 or 20 years old. One was described as about 6 feet tall and weighing 180 pounds; the other about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 160 pounds.