By NANCY H. GONTER
ngonter@repub.com
The Republican Newsroom (Massachusetts, USA)
NORTHAMPTON - A home invasion at a Westhampton Road home yesterday may be the second case of Cambodian thieves targeting a Cambodian home in this area, Police Capt. Kenneth A. Patenaude said today.
Police are investigating whether the 1:15 p.m. robbery in which only a 15-year-old Cambodian girl was at her Westhampton Road home is connected to a December incident in Granby in which an Amherst Road woman was robbed by two men using a handgun, Patenaude said.
In the Granby case, the victim was a Cambodian woman and the two suspects were identified as being Cambodian, Patenaude said.
"We suspect, although we're not saying there is a pattern, that these could be suspects targeting Cambodian families," he said.
In each case, the victims did not know the two men who entered their homes, he said.
The 15-year-old, home alone because of the school snow day Wednesday, allowed the two suspects into her house after they told her they were real estate agents. While one kept her in a room at gunpoint, the other took a safe and her cellular telephone, police said.
The two also made sure that she could not use telephones in the house, police said.
The men were described as being Cambodian, between 30-40 years old, between 5 feet 8 and 9 inches tall and both wearing leather jackets and gloves. One man had a mustache, while the other did not, police said.
They left in a white four-door car, police said.
In the incident in Granby, the two men also identified themselves as real estate agents and were allowed into the home, Granby police said at the time.
Once inside, the men showed a gun and demanded money. The men took some cash and went through closets, taking some jewelry, police said. The men then used an electrical cord to tie the victim's legs and left in a white car.
Police are investigating whether the 1:15 p.m. robbery in which only a 15-year-old Cambodian girl was at her Westhampton Road home is connected to a December incident in Granby in which an Amherst Road woman was robbed by two men using a handgun, Patenaude said.
In the Granby case, the victim was a Cambodian woman and the two suspects were identified as being Cambodian, Patenaude said.
"We suspect, although we're not saying there is a pattern, that these could be suspects targeting Cambodian families," he said.
In each case, the victims did not know the two men who entered their homes, he said.
The 15-year-old, home alone because of the school snow day Wednesday, allowed the two suspects into her house after they told her they were real estate agents. While one kept her in a room at gunpoint, the other took a safe and her cellular telephone, police said.
The two also made sure that she could not use telephones in the house, police said.
The men were described as being Cambodian, between 30-40 years old, between 5 feet 8 and 9 inches tall and both wearing leather jackets and gloves. One man had a mustache, while the other did not, police said.
They left in a white four-door car, police said.
In the incident in Granby, the two men also identified themselves as real estate agents and were allowed into the home, Granby police said at the time.
Once inside, the men showed a gun and demanded money. The men took some cash and went through closets, taking some jewelry, police said. The men then used an electrical cord to tie the victim's legs and left in a white car.
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