73-year-old robbed, bound in Homer Glen home, sheriff says

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A 73-year-old Homer Glen woman was robbed at gunpoint shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday, a report from the Will County sheriff’s department said.

The woman was returning home from grocery shopping and pulling her car into the garage in the 16800 block of South Deer Path when she was approached by a man wearing a black hoodie who was holding a gun, a sheriff’s police said.

A second man exited a dark-colored Acura, reported stolen out of Chicago, and was following her, police said.

The men forced the woman inside her home, sat her in a chair and bound her wrists and ankles, the release said. They men stole a credit card from her purse, demanded a PIN number and withdrew $2,000 from the victim’s account at a bank in Orland Park, police said.

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