RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (KTLA) — Police are searching for two suspects in a brazen home invasion robbery in Rancho Palos Verdes Tuesday night.
It happened around 8 p.m. at a home in the 4200 block of Mira Leste Drive.
89-year-old Nob Kubota, his wife and their daughter were home at the time.
Kubota said there was a knock at the door, but when he looked through the peep hole, he didn’t see anyone.
Thinking that perhaps a package had been dropped off, he opened the door, and the suspects forced their way inside.
They made the family lie on the bed in the master bedroom while they ransacked the house for several hours.
“They kept saying, ‘Where’s your money? We’re going to take your wife if you don’t tell us where it’s at,’” Kubota recalled.
He said the suspects took about $3,000-$4,000 in cash, as well as valuable jewelry, including wedding rings. They also took a rare coin collection worth over $100,000.
After the suspects were gone, Kubota called 911 from a neighbor’s house.
“We’re lucky to be alive, I think, because the way they come barging in and knock you down…” he said.
Kubota said he was not seriously hurt, but he was roughed up a little. He said his ear was ringing from being hit in the head.
Police said the suspects wore gloves and seemed to know what they were doing. They may have targeted the home.
Anyone with information is asked to call the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.
6 Comments to “Family Held Captive in Brazen Home Invasion”
March 13, 2013 at 4:50 AM
The bankers have our nation as well as others in a economic strangle hold, and until this is stopped we will see and have seen more crimes of this type. People are hungry due to unimployment, and austerity measures. Protecct yourself and loved ones, and purchase a gun.
March 13, 2013 at 5:57 AM
Must have cased the family. Otherwise, wrong house….game over!
March 13, 2013 at 12:35 PM
Get a gun…kill a home invader.
March 13, 2013 at 1:56 PM
Always greet someone at your door with a loaded gun! Sounds reasonable to me… not!
March 13, 2013 at 5:18 PM
These punks need to be caught and disposed.
March 13, 2013 at 8:29 PM
he saw the suspects, but yet no description, gee I wonder????????????