2 Men Invade Home, Take Jewelry

Two men forced their way into a house, tied up a 15-year-old girl who lives there and left with more than $500,000 worth of jewelry and ivory early Thursday morning.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said the two robbers, wearing dark clothes and knit caps, went to a house in the 26000 block of Sand Canyon Road late Wednesday night and asked the girl, whose parents were away, “Does Bill live here?” The girl told them that no one with that name lived at the house.

Shortly after midnight the men returned, forced their way through the door, tied up the girl and searched the house.

“They left with two small safes and a couple of carved elephant tusks,” said Lt. Steve Dolan. “These guys must have had some sort of knowledge of what was in the house. It appears they went looking for specific things in the house, got them and left.”

Dolan said at least one of the safes contained jewelry. The men were believed to have left in a white pickup truck, he said.