Camo-clad gunmen raid Kitsap home, tie up family, rob safe
POULSBO, Wash. - Two gunmen wearing military-style camouflage and masks broke into a home near Poulsbo, tied up the family there and robbed them before fleeing in their vehicle, Kitsap County officials said.
The drama began at about 7 a.m. Friday when the two men, believed to be in their late 20s, entered the home on a private drive in the 26400 block of Big Valley Road, said Kitsap County sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson.
One man was armed with a semi-automatic handgun and the other had a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle.
The men then tied up the occupants of the home - a 49-year-old woman, her 51-year-old boyfriend and 18-year-old daughter - with zip ties and extension cords. They were otherwise unharmed, Wilson said.
They forced the woman to open a safe, took miscellaneous jewelry, some collector coins and other collectibles from it. The gunmen also took a cash box from under the bed that contained a little cash from a yard sale, then fled the scene in the family's 1996 Chevy Blazer SUV.
Wilson said the gunmen appeared to believe there was a large amount of cash inside the family's safe - but there wasn't, so they got away with very little cash.
After the men left the home, the family called 911 and deputies arrived. The family's Blazer was found about two miles away on a side road in the woods. The home and the vehicle were processed for evidence.
"We're still trying to determine the motive for this, other than the fact that they kept demanding the money they believed was in the safe, which really didn't exist," says Wilson. "So we're trying to determine why they particularly targeted this house. We're chasing down any and all leads."
None of the family members recognized the men, who remain at large.
Wilson said it's possible that a third person was involved, who may have dropped off the men at the home and picked them up after the heist.
The drama began at about 7 a.m. Friday when the two men, believed to be in their late 20s, entered the home on a private drive in the 26400 block of Big Valley Road, said Kitsap County sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson.
One man was armed with a semi-automatic handgun and the other had a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle.
The men then tied up the occupants of the home - a 49-year-old woman, her 51-year-old boyfriend and 18-year-old daughter - with zip ties and extension cords. They were otherwise unharmed, Wilson said.
They forced the woman to open a safe, took miscellaneous jewelry, some collector coins and other collectibles from it. The gunmen also took a cash box from under the bed that contained a little cash from a yard sale, then fled the scene in the family's 1996 Chevy Blazer SUV.
Wilson said the gunmen appeared to believe there was a large amount of cash inside the family's safe - but there wasn't, so they got away with very little cash.
After the men left the home, the family called 911 and deputies arrived. The family's Blazer was found about two miles away on a side road in the woods. The home and the vehicle were processed for evidence.
"We're still trying to determine the motive for this, other than the fact that they kept demanding the money they believed was in the safe, which really didn't exist," says Wilson. "So we're trying to determine why they particularly targeted this house. We're chasing down any and all leads."
None of the family members recognized the men, who remain at large.
Wilson said it's possible that a third person was involved, who may have dropped off the men at the home and picked them up after the heist.
Definately an inside job. I'd look at the girl's former boyfriends.
sounds like an inside job to me
G-R-R-R-R!!!!!!  Absolutely reprehensible that these creeps invaded a private home and tied up the homeowners. Remembering theghastlycrimesof Joseph Duncan, I can only imagine the terror these people endured.
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The perps deserve vigilante justice in the most extreme form: Tie them up, blindfolded, let rats crawl over them with no promise that they will be permitted to live. Over a period of a few days....then do as you will.
Time to stock up on ammo, I reckon. I have been putting it off. My cat has not been the best choice for home protection. She works OK if my aim is accurate. She doesn't like target practice at all.
These things don't happen in a vacuum. I imagine the daughter probably knows who they are. Put the scum behind bars for a long time. People just need to start being careful and pay attention to things around them. Its just things and those can be replaced. next time it might be your life.
You don't 'rob' objects, you burgle them. Robbing is for people.
 @bobalouie Robbery is theft done while intimating bodily harm. From the story I think the proper term is robbery.
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Technically it started out as a burglary and ended up being a robbery and unlawful imprisonment.Â
Sounds like the Federal Government... Ha! All jokin' aside how scary!
For some reason, I think the 18 year-old daughter "spilled the beans" and tipped off a friend who tipped off another friend. These kind of robberies just don't happen all by themselves...loose lips sink ships.
This really smacks of the Clutter family slaughter in the late '50's. The killers had "believed" that the Clutters had a safe full of cash because some jailbird had said so to them in prison. This family is EXTREMELY fortunate.
How did they perp's know that there was a safe? How did they know that there was money under the bed? Go figure, what are the odds... (is there a rat?)
Losers.