Home Invaders Prey on Wealthy

clipped from money.aol.com In the past year, billionaire investors Warren Buffett  and Ernest Rady, socialite Anne Bass and professional basketball players Eddy Curry and Antoine Walker all have joined a group to which they would rather not belong: victims of home invasion. Being extremely wealthy is not immediately protection from home invasions, as Warren Buffett found out in September, when an intruder tried to get into his house in Omaha but was thwarted by a security guard. One particularly gruesome case in July underscored the dangers for many, when a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., ended in the deaths of a doctor's wife and his two daughters. In home-invasion robberies -- unlike burglaries -- thieves hope to confront the occupants, often intending to force victims to open a safe or divulge bank-card PIN numbers. According to San Diego police, Mr. Rady was stunned with the Taser, bound with duct tape, and cut with a sharp object as the intruder tried to force the couple to produce cash and valuables.