Here is the info on the woman robbed at gunpoint in santa rosa, first week in april, 2010. They also tied her up so she couldn't call for help:
Santa Rosa woman interrupts house burglary, robbed at gunpoint
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<!-- /PUBDATE --> A 67-year-old Santa Rosa woman who arrived home late Friday morning to find two strangers in front of her secluded house on Brush Creek Road was forced inside at gunpoint and restrained so she couldn't call for help, police said.
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More details emerge about attack on woman in her Brush Creek home (https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100412/ARTICLES/100419910)<!-- /GRAY BOX ARTICLE CONTENT--> The men — one in his late teens or early 20s, and the other in his 30s — ransacked the house and left on mountain bikes with cash and miscellaneous property, police officials said.
The woman, who police did not identify, later called her adult daughter, who reported the incident to police, authorities said.
Officers in cars and on motorcycles combed the area without success, while the Sonoma County sheriff's helicopter also joined the search.
It was unclear how long after the men fled that the woman reported the incident, but a neighbor said an officer told him that the woman had been bound.
The neighbor, who was working in his home office when police knocked to ask if he'd seen anything, did not want his name published.
“Unbelievable,” he said, standing across the road from the crime scene Friday. “In the middle of broad daylight.”
Investigators were still piecing together what had happened and released few details Friday.
Police Sgt. Lance Badger said the victim was accosted at the front door of her home when she arrived home around 11:30 a.m.
She was forced inside at gunpoint and kept in a room under the watchful eye of one suspect while the other searched her residence for valuables, police said.
Police would not confirm reports that the victim was physically bound, saying only that she had been restrained.
Police Detective Mark Mahre said it appeared the woman was inside with the robbers for 15 or 30 minutes, but was not physically hurt.
After they left, she called her daughter, who reported the incident to police shortly after noon, police said.
Badger said the victim was “a little shaken, but she's OK.”
“She was pretty calm, cool and collected,” said Sgt. Doug Schlief.
The woman's name was not released because detectives were still trying to determine who the robbers were and how they targeted her home, which is located about 200 yards up a winding, gravel driveway hidden from view by oaks and other trees.
The area was busy Friday morning because of an estate sale at a neighboring residence, where dozens of people came and went in a single hour Friday.
“It's pretty secluded back in there,” Badger said, pointing up the sloping driveway toward the obscured house where the robbery occurred. He said it was unclear if the men already had been inside the house when they confronted the homeowner, or if they had just arrived, Badger said.
Once inside, “they ransacked the residence,” he said, “but as far as what they took, I don't know. I'm not sure she knows.”
At the house Friday evening, relatives appeared to be helping clean up the mess left by the robbery.
A representative of the family said they would have no comment.
Both robbers were described as clean-shaven white men. The older of the two was armed with what appeared to be a semi-automatic weapon. One of the bicycles was a newer, silver mountain bike with visible shocks. The other bicycle was dark colored, police said.