Elderly men beaten, robbed in separate incidents

Two el­der­ly men were beat­en and robbed by ban­dits in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents, hours apart on Sun­day.

In the most re­cent at­tack, a 71-year-old Barataria man was bound, beat­en and robbed when three ban­dits stormed his home at around 11.30 pm. Po­lice said the man was in the kitchen of his Eighth Street home when the ban­dits con­front­ed him, steal­ing his cell­phone and $10,000 in cash.

The at­tack­ers then led the man to the bath­room, tied his hands, and beat him be­fore lock­ing him in­side. They al­so stole the man’s black Hyundai Tuc­son, $20,000 in cash and US $1,500 from a draw­er in the house be­fore flee­ing. The man man­aged to free him­self and re­port­ed the in­ci­dent.