Police: Brooklyn Home Invasion Robbers Posed As Delivery Men, Claimed To Be Cops
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The search is on for three suspects in a home invasion in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Surveillance video posted on social media shows an elderly couple and their daughter tied up in their living room on Monday afternoon, reports CBS2's Andrea Grymes reports.
Police say the 75-year-old woman, a 36-year-old woman and an 81-year-old man were bound with tape at their home along Sixth Avenue.
Police say the victims reported that a man pretending to be a FedEx delivery man entered the home and then allowed another man inside.
The family says the false FedEx man flashed a badge and announced himself as a police officer.
Police say together the duo led the three victims into the living room where they were bound with tape.
After securing the victims, police say the men made off with a safe containing $100,000 in cash and jewelry.
CBS2 spoke with a next-door neighbor who says he heard a band and knew something was wrong, took a picture of the getaway car and then went inside to help his neighbors.
"I went inside and helped them take off the tape off the elderly faces and their hands, and tried to calm them down a bit." said neighbor Gary Baxter. "Basically they were stunned but I just tried to make them feel a little relaxed."
Police say the victims were not physically hurt. Neighbors said the family are business owners.
No arrests have been made in the case.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74682), logging onto the Crime stoppers website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enterings TIP577.
