Westminster family tied up during home invasion robbery; police searching for group of suspects
Police are searching for a group of robbers who tied up a Westminster family during a home invasion on Monday.
The scene unfolded at around 10:40 p.m., when Westminster Police Department officers were dispatched to the 8900 block of Pebble Beach Circle after receiving a call from a woman whispering that she needed help.
She hid in a closet as the gunmen zapped her husband with a stun gun and beat him into compliance.
The four gunmen, who were all wearing Halloween masks, used plastic zip ties to detain the woman's 7-year-old daughter, 14-year-old son and her husband, Tom Nguyen.
"They tied me up... like a handcuff," said Nguyen.
The suspects used a pillowcase to gather all of the items they stole from the home.
"They took the wallet and they took $200 from my wallet," said Nguyen.
Police said they arrived at the home in three minutes. They were able to recover the pillowcase filled with stolen valuables and caught one of the robbers while he was scaling a wall.
"One of the males, identified as Danny Sommay, was taken into custody in front of the residence after he threw his handgun over a brick wall," a statement from WPD said. "The gun was recovered and found to be a loaded 9mm handgun reported as stolen."
The three other suspects fled and are still outstanding as of Tuesday evening.
"Officers learned the suspects forced entry into the residence armed with handguns. A male suspect pushed the adult male victim to the ground and used a stun gun to gain compliance," the statement said.
Sommay, 29, has since been booked into an Orange County jail and is being held on $1 million bail.
There was no further information provided on the three outstanding suspects.
