3 Robbers Invade Home in Santa Ana Heights

A Santa Ana Heights couple and their 10-day-old baby were held at gunpoint during a home-invasion robbery Tuesday, authorities said.

Three assailants confronted the man as he was walking to the couple’s apartment in the gated Palm Mesa complex on Mesa Drive at about 2 p.m., Orange County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said. One of the robbers pressed a handgun against the man’s back and forced him into the apartment, bound his hands and demanded money, Amormino said. They threatened to shoot the woman and harm the couple’s baby, he said.

The robbers left after the couple gave them about $1,000, Amormino said. Nobody was injured, he said.

The robbers were described as white men 18 to 21 years old, all wearing dark clothing, police said. One was 5 feet, 8 inches tall with brown hair, blue eyes, a goatee and braces on his lower teeth, Amormino said. One was 6-feet-2 with short reddish-brown hair, he said, and one was 5-feet-6 with brown hair and a thin build.