Police detectives are looking for two suspects who broke into a Houston business owner’s Missouri City home.
The home owner, accompanied by a co-worker, came home from work at about 10:45 Monday night to find two men inside her residence, a Missouri City Police Department spokeswoman said. The two took her co-worker upstairs, tied him up and left him locked inside a room.
They then took the woman into her kitchen and questioned her, “trying to find out where the drugs and money were,” the spokeswoman said. The woman told them she had no drugs, and kept no cash in her house. She then told the two men that she had a safe upstairs, and gave them the keys to it, ostensibly to prove to them that she had no cash.
When the two robbers went upstairs, the woman fled the house, ran to a neighbor’s and called police.
The police spokeswoman said officers found the house totally ransacked, and believe the two men gained entry through a broken bathroom window. Officers found the home owner’s co-worker tied up in an upstairs room that had furniture piled up against it, apparently to prevent the man from escaping.
The robbers, described only as black men with foreign accents, left without injuring either the woman or her co-worker, but stole each of their cell phones.
