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Two suspects broke into a Gum Street home while a boy's parents were out Christmas shopping.

Two suspects broke into a Gum Street home while a boy’s parents were out Christmas shopping.

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Reporting Ron Jones

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LIVE OAK, Calif. (CBS13) – A young boy was tied up after a pair of home invasion suspects found him while he was playing video games, authorities said.

Sutter County investigators said the parents of the 12-year-old victim were Christmas shopping when two men approached their home on Gum Street and began checking for entry points into the home.

The two men entered through an unlocked door at the rear of the home and began searching the home. The victim heard the suspects walking around the kitchen and investigated, stumbling onto the intruders.

Detectives said the boy told them the men tied him up with an extension cord and locked him into one of the rooms in the home.

The two men stole the boy’s video games and 12 jars of medicinal marijuana, police said.

After the suspects drove off in a red vehicle, the boy was able to break free and run to a neighbor’s house for help. He was not seriously injured.

Police are still looking for the suspects, who are described as possibly Hispanic or Asian men in their 20s.

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  • Kalifornian

    Who leaves their 12 Year Old at home alone without a gun!?

  • Mary_M

    Who leaves a 12 year old alone with a gun?

  • Amber

    Mary, the boy did not have a gun, it says they left him home alone on GUM street

  • DBinVa

    “The two men stole the boy’s video games and 12 jars of medicinal marijuana, police said.”
    Hmm…could it be that they broke in for the marijuana and not just the video games?

  • Micha Warr

    Mary was just responding to the prior post and I certainly have left my kids home alone at 12. For Pete’s sake! 12 year olds are quite capable and responsible people if you’ve taught them the basics. Sounds like this young man responded as well as any adult would have. I’m glad he’s safe.

  • Horatio Nelson

    Mary M. Liberal, who thinks that home invasions are just plain fun.

  • Rick

    Gee what were they they for..HMM the games or the weed. Stupid smoked out parents.

  • Pilot.Dave

    I leave my 14 year old with a 45 ACP :-)

  • Diego Roswell

    California residents should really heed the news stories and police blogs. Violent crimes and property crimes are way up as the state’s economy tanks. Local police departments are not even responding to property crimes and have such reduced forces that the investigations personnel are not investigating property crimes at all. Sure if you call 911 they will send a cruiser. If you don’t pay a parking ticket or forget to show up for jury duty a detective or marshall will be at your house. You and your neighbors have a better chance just watching out for each other – exercise your second amendment right to own a gun, keep it loaded and close to you – when these thugs come – they mean business.

  • Michele

    That’s funny!!

  • seanpatriot

    They werent Asian

  • RN

    Who leaves a 12-yr-old with twelve jars of medical marijuana?

  • Philip Kousoubris

    1. No parents at home.
    2. 12 jars of medicinal marijuana at home.
    3. 12 year old at home, alone.
    Is this the average CA home?
    Enough said.

  • loserville, welfare pigs

    this is what liberals want and hope to breed more of. keep your obama money flowing right into there drug habits. there parents are already double dipping the government teet. so why shouldn’t there child steal and possibly assault someone. the fault lies with the democrats and there absolute disregard for the REAL world. not there imaginary one where everyone tries and no one abuses the system.

  • Jesse

    Seriously, a pump action remmington 870 express is super cheap and easy to use. $400, and the best security you can get.

  • John

    I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess the victims are an ‘ethnic’ family. Some ethnicities love bling and carrying around lots of cash. Their fellow ethnics are well aware of this cultural tendency. And of course the weed. This was not random.

  • ROY

    I leave my kid at home with my M4… BOOM Head-shot on any intruders…

  • country boy

    I taught my kids how to handle firearms starting at 6 years old.with a BB gun and moving on up from there… If it was good enough for me, it’s good enough for them.

  • Joseph

    I’m not sure how this became a liberal vs. conservative issue, but your poor grammar is making your political-party-of-choice look bad.
    Teat is spelled with an a, and please learn the difference between there, their and they’re.

  • Ed

    I actually felt sorry for the kid until the “12 jars of medical marijuana” part..then I lol’d and moved on. Karma has a way of catching up with everyone ya know…

  • SteveC

    “I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess the victims are an ‘ethnic’ family”

    Live Oak is about 80% white so you’re out pretty far on that limb. More likely the parents are born again hippies.

  • SMH

    So John, this was their fault? Because they are “ethnic”? “Their fellow ethincs”? Every part of your statement is ridiculous. Did you even read what you wrote?
    In case you are actually as ignorant as you sound, ethnicity refers to one’s cultural background/ancestry, therefore, as a Caucasian (which I am going to “go out on a limb” and assume you are), YOU TOO have an ethnicity and are therefore ETHNIC. Idiot.

  • DBinVA

    Yeah, the headline is bit misleading.

  • DBinVa

    Sorry. I meant to say the headline on Drudge was misleading.
    “Home Invaders Tie Up 12-Year-Old Boy, Take Video Games…”

  • john

    I think leaving the kid with a gun is a grand idea. One of my favorite things to do is search Google News for “accidentally shot” and read stories about kids left alone with guns. Go ahead, try it. There are always heartwarming stories available.

  • ‘BB Rabozza

    The biggest problem here was an unlocked door. Now THAT was stupid.

  • mike

    More “Hispanic Men” disrespecting our Country and wantonly breaking our laws. Thanks multi cultural Liberals and spinless neo-con Republicans for letting this happen. Hang ém high.

  • robert

    Or stories of kids killed by pitchfork murderer while families guns are locked for “safety” though oldest child (13) knows how to use them-Modesto(look it up).

    If you can’t trust your kids, then don’t leave them alone to defend themselves.

  • lou

    I’m sorry but I find it funny that the kid couldn’t tell the difference between Hispanic and Asian? Perhaps he should stop playing video games and get out more!

  • me me

    when I leave the house with my boy inside I leave a note that says ” come in the door is unlock “

  • Edward

    lol hmmmm Fat TSA agents are somewhere hit with the munchies playing xbox on an airport scaner. The police need to go back an question the boy an see if the intruders were rough when they handled him!

  • Durazac

    too much said – a 12 year old is perfectly capable of being home alone if he is half responsible and well parented. That covers 1 and 3. You may not like the medical marijuana, but if that is your only genuine gripe….. a legal substance being stolen, then I hope it’s the average home anywhere. You’re real gripe is that you think children should be guarded 24/7, parents should never be permitted to make such a decision to leave responsible kids at home for a bit, and anyone smoking pot must be a loser worthy of home invasion. I suppose freedom is only what YOU think it should be.

  • Chuck

    Being liberal or conservative isn’t a party-of-choice. Please learn the difference.

  • Durazac

    I’m pretty sure that the family is innocent of everything – why do you hate them so. How is this in any way related to politics? Like Joseph says, even a basic understanding of proper spelling and grammar couldn’t hurt your argument. I am a semi-conservative republican and am ashamed that people who gripe about their freedoms being at risk are so quick to insult and take away the rights of others. Parents have the RIGHT to decide when their child is old enough to stay home – or do you prefer that the government step in. Medical Marijuana is legal in CA, but you would override that, re-criminalizing and perpetuating the crime you ascribe to the drug. Crime is associated with marijuana BECAUSE it is illegal – not because it is abused. You have your choice, drug cartels and gangs profiting of drugs, or legalization and taxation, eliminating the criminal elemant and 30% of your criminals overnight.

  • me

    well he had the guns in the game, so, um, yeah.

  • Heartland Patriot

    How dare you? Why, once a news outlet has decreed it, its like Pharaoh: So let it be written, so let it be done…the sticky weed was just a lucky find, of course…

  • Heartland Patriot

    Don’t you worry none, come January your new governor, the one, the only Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown will bring law and order to the whole state, just like he did in Oaktown…as well as getting some more gun ban laws passed “for your safety”…man, am I glad I left California after I got out of the military…I’d rather have a hard-hearted governor than an leftist governor…suckers! Glad the kid was okay, though.

  • Rodger

    Hmmm, 14 YO home alone palying video games! Mayhaps he smoked the “medicinal” pot himself and sent his games to his buds house so he could explain why the pot was gone? I’m so cynical.

  • Heartland Patriot

    And YOU win the prize for the poster child of the folks that put that once fine state into the sorry condition it is in…please, keep smoking them tweeds and don’t worry about things like home invasions and robberies…I feel for a lot of the folks in the Central Valley and the Sierras, that they will have to suffer for you folks voting for a Democrat lockdown of the state…but, those unfortunates are welcome to move to the FREE STATES…as long as they leave that entitlement mentality behind…

  • Asian view

    That kid should have watched “Home Alone”. Those robbers did a favor to that kid. Video games are one of the items that are ruining our kids who just get “lost” in make believe worlds instead of playing with toys that are real

  • Heartland Patriot

    And obviously, since the grammar of the other person was lacking, that makes YOUR viewpoint SO much better than theirs…once again, the elitists have spoken…and proved the point…

  • Heartland Patriot

    And I give SteveC the thumbs up on this one…I remember Live Oak being an economically depressed area, as they say…but a mostly white one…

  • paladin

    If that was my house and my boy the story would be about 2 dead intruders

  • Don Dingle

    Who names these Streets?

  • Bored

    What game was the boy playing? PS3 or XBox? What flavors of Marijuana? Details please

  • Heartland Patriot

    First off, it would be properly termed a “negligent discharge of a firearm”. Second, things like that stem from mishandling a firearm which generally stems from a lack of safety and firearm operation training. I wouldn’t expect a 12 year old to have sniper or tactical skills, but if the parents were going to have firearms, then the kids should have training on them in regards to safety and basic operation…if you ever notice, it is mostly urban and suburban kids who have these “accidents”…all due to a lack of training. Most rural kids grown up with firearms and so have a much lower incidence of these problems. But, hey, nice plug for the old Brady Campaign there…I’m sure Sarah will send you a “Holiday Card”.

  • Teabagginu

    I live a couple blocks away on Tootsie Roll Street, we don’t have these problems. Wish I knew my Neighbor had all these Jars of Marijuana, we could have been real good friends…

  • Tom

    Same here, my son swings a nice shotgun with buckshot.

  • Tom

    “Chewy-bacca”

  • FINKSTER

    STUPID CALIFORNIANS; MEDICAL POT. RIGHT !!!!!!!

  • Justin

    All lies. This is a situation were this kid was a l33t player in another online clan an these guys did this to prevent him from taking part in his clans matches.

  • Billy the Bum

    So the kid fakes a burglery and now has 12 jars of weed for Christmas. He’s no dummy.

  • Balsca T. Bagher

    Yeah, Michael. You’re such a winner. Keep on not smoking pot and sitting on your ass posting idiotic comments on a local news website.

  • Steve

    Haaa yeah Michael get your card and join the peaceful rebellion.

  • Charlie

    You are an idiot with no facts.

  • Jaye Southworth

    I don’t live too far from Live Oak, we’ve had several home invasions here. Anyone come into my house they’ll be dead–graveyard dead.

  • no sir

    I say factless idiot

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  • Deano

    I was gonna lock the back door…Instead I got high…
    Ooooooooooo….
    I was gonna get my homework done….Until I got high…
    La la la….
    Now I’m tied up on the floor and I know why…
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    ‘Cause I got high,
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  • obama

    i heard if i come to theis website i getz free potz, gum, and gamez.

  • b c g

    can you say, dirtbag?

  • Ninny

    The parents know who broke in the house and stole thier weed.Poor boy is probably so scared. I feel bad for him.

  • Eric Smith

    lol

  • balsa wood

    actions seem consistant with goverance in that city. I wonder if you can see the Governor’s jet coming and going from Gum street?

  • Mark

    I got news for you. When you play with “real” toys your in a make believe world too, you jack-wagon. Video games in moderation help develop problem solving and improve reaction time and motor skills. Please tell me what the wooden truck you pulled on a string behind you as a kid helped. Of course anything in excess is bad for you. Save your good old day speech for bingo night.

  • Glen

    The streets in the old part of town are named after trees alphabetically. Ash, Birch, no C, Date, Fir, Gum, etc.

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  • Bill Claptrap

    I really don’t care because his parents are stoners and they are raising a stoner, its obvious the people knew they had the marijuana, they are friends

  • Scratchee

    In other news, a 12-year-old boy and his buddies were busted with 12 jars of medicinal marijuana.

  • David

    Make sure you dispose of the bodies, it IS california, where you can be arrested for defending yourself against illegal aliens.

  • josh

    it better not to have children at all.

  • Run Twentysixmiles

    Yeah, I’m sure dad wasn’t dealing, he’s just another of the unfortunate “chronically ill’ individuals in California! Just one of millions who have come down with a ‘debilitating illness’ in the years since ‘medical marijuana’ was legalized!!!
    Yeah, this was just a random crime, like all the drug violence in Mexico, just a random crime! Guess dad will have to make another trip to the ‘pharmacy’, replacing those video games is going to be a pain in the butt!!!!

  • flint

    An obvious case that someone knew the pot was there. Inside job by the kids friends or someone who knows them.

  • flint

    galt…did you read…MEDICAL not recreationa. Been smokin’ a bit too much for those eyes to catch that? Loser.

  • Ho Moe Lone

    I don’t get it. That’s not what happened in the movies.

    Isn’t MacAulay Culkin supposed to sleep with Michael Jackson?

  • Whatsmyname

    The story might be um B.S too.. I mean what that’s all they took? No Money, Credit cards anything alike? B.S Detected.

  • David Kennedy Barrett

    Without question the burglars’ intent was to steal the 12 jars of marijuana. The perps know the victims either through business or social relationships. The video games were an after thought that could be sold for a bit of cash.

  • Bill Claptrap

    sfsd

  • Bobby Boston

    The best thing that could have happened if the 12 year old was armed and shot and killed the two punks. I could hear the moonbats now, complaining about guns and that it would be a shame if the two were lying stinking in the earth after robbing an innocent kid.

  • VitoChan

    yea man.. if you knew about the story.. The kid used medicinal marijuana to help him stomach food.
    How many hours a day do you drink and beat your wife ? Exacttly. Marijuana has hurt nooobody. Ever.

  • Fk

    What part of medicinal marijuana did you not understand?

  • Jarhead

    Quite assumptive of you. You see the word Marijuana and just assume it was the kid’s. Reading actual words isn’t your forte. The weed was medicinal. Which means it was procured legally and by prescription. This kid was playing a video game, yes, but he wasn’t smoking pot. It was more than likely his parents pot. I play video games, and new games are played until played through. Which may include a 4-6 hour session from time to time, but I don’t play every day. I’ve maybe played 24 total hours in the last year. I smoke medical marijuana every day. I am eloquent and have a job in sales. I make my own living and don’t get free money from other tax payers. Next month I’ll be 60. If you keep up this BS of attacking personally, you won’t make it to my age. Especially if you decide to attack in person…please look me up, as this former Marine would be more than happy to educate you in the fine art of self preservation.

    Now some observations about you, seeing as though you like to give your opinion of others you don’t know anything about. I believe you’re a lazy live-in-your-parents-basement non-working living off others because you’re too good to take a menial job that you’re under-qualified to have anyway. You’re either too stupid or lazy to capitalize or punctuate properly or to even follow basic grammar rules. And unfortunately, you’ll probably see this as something to be proud of because someone responded to your post.

    But I bet you feel better putting down someone else…that’s what your type does. Grow yourself before you criticize others. This kid was traumatized by these burglars and all you can do is attack the kid more. You are a moron, plain and simple.

  • Salharmonic

    Right medical, I’m sure. An the parents? Model citizens no doubt, leaving a kid home with video games and marijuana.

  • carl

    uhh, right, the kid is 12 and smokes medical marijuana? Are you kidding me??? Only in Califonia….

  • Big C in Texas

    Here in Houston a Deputy’s son was home with his Sis; he shot 1 guy and the other begged not to be shot. Proper gun retention and training saves lives.
    They took the pot and video games; guess that’s what occupied the thieves afternoon…left the TV, Jewels? stupid crooks…

  • Jeanie

    Inside job. They didn’t just “happen” to find a home with a bunch of weed by “coincidence”. Somebody talked, and they were targeted because of it. Or one or both of the intruders was someone who’d been in the home.

  • ScottFree

    Dear Jarhead,
    I believe you need to take some more medication for your anger issues, since it doesnt appear to be working.
    Remember that inviting someone to attack you only worked for inspector clouseau, and hes been gone far to long.

  • Jarhead

    I appreciate you looking out for my best interests, but of course having this moron meet me isn’t going to happen. I was just making a point that I see missed you completely. As you were more than likely just looking for something to say to antagonize me. The only part that got my ire up, was his wanton lack of respect for this kid. I was trying to educate with the use of his own method of attack so he would be able to fathom it. Do you just go around to forums and dribble your views at anyone you feel you can bring down to your level of cranium activity? You missed completely here.

  • LEGION

    The credit cards and the money were on the Parents who were out Christmas shopping.

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    Police need to arrest the stupid dope head parents in this one.

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