Guns, TVs taken in home invasion

A woman in rural Colusa County suffered minor injuries when she was tied up and robbed in her own house early Sunday morning, according to the Colusa County Sheriff’s Department.

According to a department press release, a woman in her mid-50s living in a home on Gridley-Colusa Highway, 12 miles northeast of Colusa, was in her bedroom at 2:47 a.m. Sunday when three unidentified males entered her house, pulled her from the bed and tied her up with nylon-electrical wire ties.

The release also said the three men disabled the home’s land-line phones as well, then ransacked the house, taking guns, large-screen televisions and possibly other items.

“This was very unusual,” said Colusa County Sheriff Scott Marshall. “Home-invasion robberies are very unusual in this area.”

The woman was discovered by her daughter Sunday at 9 a.m., still tied up. She was taken to Colusa Regional Medical Center.

According to the release, the men acted as law enforcement officers would’ve while they were robbing the house. Marshall said that was based on a statement of the men was said to have made, that he was a law enforcement officer looking for a fugitive.

“It wasn’t anyone from the Colusa County Sheriff’s Department,” he said. “And I don’t know of any other agency that might have been involved.”

Sheriff’s deputies are investigating whether the woman knew the people who robbed her, along with all other leads, Marshall said.

He said the department, with assistance from the California Department of Justice, is continuing to investigate the incident. The state justice department is helping in collection of a massive amount of evidence, he said.