A Moru­ga fam­i­ly was robbed of thou­sands of dol­lars in cash and oth­er items dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing home in­va­sion on Tues­day. 

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port, around 2.30 am a 47-year-old tech­ni­cian and his 37-year-old wife were awak­ened by a noise com­ing from the liv­ing room area of their Fifth Com­pa­ny Vil­lage, St Marys, Moru­ga Road home. They went to in­ves­ti­gate and saw three men, one bare­back and armed with the cut­lass while an­oth­er had a gun, in their home.  

Dur­ing a strug­gle with the ban­dits, the tech­ni­cian was struck on his face. The in­trud­ers then robbed him of a quan­ti­ty of items, in­clud­ing a wal­let with $1300, a $4000 base am­pli­fi­er and a $700 Ama­zon Tablet. His wife was robbed of two sil­ver rings, four gold rings, five gold chains, a quan­ti­ty of gold and sil­ver ear­rings and a gold beera to­geth­er val­ued $10,000. The cou­ple's 16-year-old son who was al­so home was robbed of $1300 cash and a cell phone. 

 The men gained en­try by pry­ing open a ply­board on the north­ern side of the house. PC Ed­wards is in­ves­ti­gat­ing. 

Re­porter: Sascha Wil­son