WARREN, Mich. – Police are searching for two masked men who are suspected of breaking into a 71-year-old Warren woman's house, tying her up and ransacking her home.
The two men, armed with a baseball bat, broke into the home around 5 a.m. Thursday on Falmouth Drive near 11 Mile and Hoover roads, police said.
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They threatened to hurt the woman and kill her cat, police said.
Police released surveillance pictures of the men taken from just after the attack at Walmart at 12 Mile and Van Dyke roads.
Officials also released the 911 call that the woman made after she untied herself.
"Someone just broke into my home and tied me up and took all of my belongings," the woman told the 911 operator.
"Who was this?" the operator asked.
"I have no idea," the woman said. "They knew my son. That's all I know."
The woman said the men got in through her window. Local 4 asked her how she was doing.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said. "They did not hurt me."
Neighbors said it's a quiet street, but the woman suffered a terrifying ordeal when the two men broke into her home.
"I guess someone, two young black males in their late 20s to 30s, broke in one of the windows that wasn't already all the way latched, and they flashed a flashlight in her face and threatened her and got her ATM number and stole her phone and wallet," the woman's son said.
Investigators also released an image of a silver minivan with which the suspects were pictured.
Police said the men might also have been involved in another attempted break-in earlier Thursday morning.
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