Armed Robbers Ransack Home

FOUNTAIN VALLEY — Two armed robbers ransacked a house Sunday night, threatening to harm the children, and escaped with electronic equipment, police said.

The attackers invaded the home in the 11100 block of Bellflower Avenue by prying open a locked, sliding-glass door, Sgt. Dann Bean said. They escaped with about $500 worth of goods, he said.

The couple told police that they were watching television in their bedroom, and their children were sleeping in the next room at 11:40 p.m. when the wife heard noise outside their bedroom door.

When she got up, the robbers, one armed with a handgun and the other with a knife, burst in the room, he said.

The assailants tied the husband’s hands behind his back with a nearby telephone cord and then covered both people with a blanket.

While the robbers ransacked the two-story house, they threatened to harm the couple’s children, but did not, Bean said.

The robbers fled more than an hour later with cash, a video recorder and a camera, police said.

The attackers were described as Asian, about 25, of thin and medium build and with black hair.