Married couple subjected to ultimate indignity by callous thieves on their doorstep
A married couple was forced to strip off their clothing and give away their valuables to callous thieves who robbed them on their front doorstep in Illinois.
Navy veteran Gregory Poulos, 56, and his wife Angie Beltsos, 61, were arriving home from a late dinner on Monday when armed robbers pointed guns at their faces around 10pm.
'Here, take it, take it!' Poulos can be heard telling the thieves on Ring footage. 'Take everything!'
He and his wife began throwing their belongings, including a purse, phones, blazers, and even Beltsos' wedding ring and ring Poulos' grandfather wore his whole life, ABC 7 Chicago and WGN 9 reported.
'It was surreal, to be honest. You don't know what to think. You sort of freeze,' Poulos told ABC 7.
Two of the couple's children were inside the $1.6million home, but were unharmed.
'Thank god they didn't open the door in the midst of that,' Beltsos, who is a doctor, told ABC 7 Chicago.
Thieves then ordered the couple to lie down on their stomachs while keeping guns pointed at them as they took off in a stolen Jaguar that was later found by police.
However, the assailants are still at large.
The incident left the couple shaken, with Beltsos saying: 'You are in the place that you're supposed to be safe. Right in your front lawn in front of your door, and instead, you have a gun pointed at you, times three, and your life can be taken.
'Anywhere in this city, anywhere in this country we should be safe in our homes.'
Now, the couple is hoping to warn others and that their experience serves as a lesson to other families.
'What we really want is a deterrent for others to say that this is not worth doing,' Poulos told ABC 7.
The veteran credits his time in the Navy for the ability to remain calm while under attack.
The veteran credits his time in the Navy for the ability to remain calm while under attack
'Whether you are churning inside or not, you have to remain calm on the outside, and you have to be very deliberate in what you do,' he told ABC 7.
So far, no suspects have been taken into custody.
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