SIMI VALLEY : Vietnamese Home Broken Into; 6 Held

Two Vietnamese men and four male juveniles were arrested in Simi Valley on Wednesday after four of them allegedly broke into the house of a Vietnamese family, ransacked it and tied up three occupants, police said.

None of the eight people in the house, including five children, were injured, Sgt. Robert A. Gardner said. He said it did not appear that anything was taken from the house.

“I don’t know what kind of crime we have here,” he said.

Police did not disclose the identities of those arrested.

Gardner said the break-in occurred shortly after noon at the house in the 2000 block of Riverbirch Drive. He said four of the suspects allegedly knocked on the door, then forced their way in. He said the four, two of whom carried guns, tied up the three adults in the house.

When a neighbor spotted the suspects leaving the house, they ran to the back and fled over a fence. Police sealed off the neighborhood and called for a Ventura County sheriff’s helicopter to help in the search.

Gardner said one of the suspects was arrested a short time later, along with two male companions, when police spotted them riding in a car a few blocks away. The other three were arrested at a neighborhood video store.