The Region - News from Dec. 24, 1986

An armed group of Vietnamese youths entered an Irvine home at gunpoint, tied up and beat two men who live there and fled with about $5,000 in cash and other valuables, police said. About 11:30 a.m., the “five or six� youths forced their way into a home in the 3000 block of Hendrix Street and overpowered the two men, Irvine Police Sgt. Mike Ogden said. The residents, who also are Vietnamese immigrants, were tied up and struck in the face with the butts of the intruders’ pistols, Ogden said. The victims described their attackers as Vietnamese. After taking the money and a pistol from the residents, the youths fled. No one was seriously injured and there were no shots fired, Ogden said. The suspects were described as in their “late teens or early 20s,� Ogden said.