Pregnancy aids home invasion

Around 8:15 p.m. on Saturday Nov. 26, the Laval Police responded to call from a 59-year-old female resident of Firmin St. just off Dagenais Blvd. who said she had just been the victim of a home invasion.
Earlier, the woman had been approached by a younger and pregnant woman who was out walking a dog. The younger woman told the victim she was lost and wanted to enter the house to make a phone call.
After making the call and as she was preparing to leave, two men walked in the door of the house and proceeded to tie up the homeowner, then placed her in the bathroom. They then made a thorough tour of the house, apparently to decide what they wanted to steal.
According to Laval Police spokesman Cst. Franco Di Genova, the suspects succeeded in making off with a small amount of jewelry. Apart from the trauma of being tied up and confined, the victim suffered no physical injuries. “She got very scared,” Di Genova said. “There were no knives or guns involved, so no weapons.”
Afterwards, the victim had no idea what else if anything the suspects were looking for or what they took. The pregnant woman is described as white, around 35 to 40 years of age, 5’6”, with hair down to her shoulders. She had several earrings on her left ear and appeared to be seven to nine months pregnant.
The first of the male suspects was described as white, around 40 years old, 5’9” tall, with curly brown hair. He was wearing glasses and was wearing jeans and a dark-coloured jacket. The second one was 16 to 18 years of age, around 5’5”, with brown hair and eyes. He was wearing a denim jacket with a sheep’s wool lining.
Di Genova said the modus operandi involving a pregnant woman as bait “is something we haven’t seen before. It’s the first time we hear about it, honestly. I mean, there’s nothing that comes close to that. We’ve seen in the past the knocking on the door and once the door is open they barge right in. But is this a new tactic? The detectives are still on the case. They’re going to keep an eye on it. But if it happens again I guess it’s going to kind of confirm that it’s the next thing that’s happening.”
In terms of protecting one’s self from similar situations, he advised that anyone approaching you in a similar way should be made to wait outside while you call the number on the phone. If there’s a cordless phone, hand it out rather than allowing a stranger into your home.