Police are investigating a home invasion robbery of an elderly woman.
It happened early Saturday morning at a home on Crafton Drive in Bensalem. Police arrived at the home around 2:15 a.m.
The victim, an 83-year-old woman, told police she was sleeping in her bed when a man forced his way into her house, held a knife to her and threatened to kill her if she didn't give him her ATM code. The suspect then allegedly tied the woman’s arms and legs to a nightstand.
Police say the woman faked a heart attack, causing the suspect to turn on a ceiling fan and check her pulse. The man then allegedly cut the woman’s phone lines, found her debit card and then fled the scene. The man went to a nearby bank and withdrew money from the woman’s account, according to investigators.
Police say the woman was able to free herself around an hour later by cutting the rope with her teeth. She then called police.
"She chewed through the hand ropes and then she hobbled out to the place where she keeps her scissors and cut her feet loose," said the woman's neighbor Kristen Locke.
The woman was not hurt in the incident.
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The suspect along with another woman were caught on surveillance video at a gas station in Germantown two hours after the alleged break-in.
The suspect is described as thin black male standing 6-feet in his late 20s to 30s with a thick beard and mustache. He was last seen wearing a brown-hooded jacket, tan cargo pants and was carrying a black Tommy Hilfiger shoulder bag.
Police also believe he was driving a late model, white Ford Taurus with a low-riding rear.
Police consider the suspect armed and dangerous and say he may be in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. If you have any information on this incident, please call Bensalem Police at 215-633-3719.
