A wed­ding ring and a large sum of cash were among the items stolen when cut­lass-wield­ing ban­dits broke in­to the home of a La Ro­maine busi­ness­man ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the 30-year-old man and his wife were awak­ened by a loud noise out­side their bed­room around 3 am. With­in sec­onds, two men dressed in dark-coloured hood­ies, one armed with a cut­lass, burst in­to the room.

One of the sus­pects bound the hus­band’s hands with plas­tic straps while the oth­er ran­sacked the house. The ban­dits stole a bag con­tain­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 80 grams of gold scraps, one white gold wed­ding ring, three gold hand bands, one Louis Vuit­ton hand­bag, and three gold be­ras.

The to­tal val­ue of the items was yet to be de­ter­mined.

They al­so stole sev­er­al bot­tles of al­co­holic bev­er­ages and $38,000 in cash.

South­ern Di­vi­sion Po­lice re­spond­ed to the re­port but found no signs of forced en­try. How­ev­er, in­ves­ti­ga­tors not­ed that the ban­dits ex­it­ed through the front door.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors searched for fin­ger­prints but were un­suc­cess­ful. Of­fi­cers were await­ing for­mal state­ments as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ued. (KF)