Crime & Safety
'Smooth, Credible' Intruder Targeted 90-Year-Old: Police
The victim was knocked down and dragged to another room, where man posing as service worker covered her head and face, Troy police said.
TROY, MI – A 90-year-old Troy woman was knocked down, dragged to another room and robbed by a man who got into her home Tuesday by posing as a service worker, police said.
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The victim's longtime home on Wattles near Troy Athens High School has been targeted by thieves before, so her husband wired souvenir World War II grenades around a wall safe as a deterrent, her son told WDIV-TV. The mortars weren't live, but the risk of an explosion didn't seem to faze the intruder, the victim's son said.
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“He was pretty smooth and credible in carrying this out,” Lehman said.
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After dragging the woman to another room, the intruder covered her head and face, according to the report. The victim was shaken up in the home invasion, but wasn’t injured.
“She’s frail, so she had a hard time getting up,” the woman’s son told the TV station.
The suspect is described as a white man in his 50s with a medium build, last seen wearing a gray baseball cap and earbud headphones. He was driving a silver or gray SUV.
The suspect got away with credit cards and checks. Police are currently reviewing footage from surveillance video at the home.
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