SHORELINE, Wash. — The King County sheriff’s office says a 92-year-old Shoreline man chewed through restraints to free himself after two men robbed him in his house.
Sgt. John Urquhart said two men knocked on Lester Matteson’s door Monday and asked to use his phone, claiming their car had broken down. But once they entered, the men grabbed the victim’s arms and held them while they used masking tape to tape him to a chair.
Urquhart said the men ransacked the house, eventually taking off with more than $400 in cash and the victim’s 2000 Ford pickup.
It took Matteson two hours to chew through the masking tape. Other than bruises, he was not injured. Matteson told KOMO-TV he wasn’t frightened but that at his age, “you don’t wrestle two young men.” And he said he had learned his lesson: “Watch out who you let in.”
The robbers are still at large.
