Watch your back the BG can sneak up on you.
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Local attorney victim of robbery
Mary Meaux
The Port Arthur News
GROVES —
Melvin and Karon Boneau can count themselves lucky, although they are the victims of a Friday morning home burglary.
The couple was awakened by a noise inside their home about 12:30 a.m. Friday in the 5000 block of Sunken Court.
Melvin Boneau, a local attorney, investigated the source of the noise, but did not see anything so he went to his study and sat down. While there, he picked up his .45 caliber handgun, which he is licensed to carry, his wife said, and made a few more passes through the home.
Melvin, 68, had taken only a few steps from his living room when a man came from behind and pinned his arms to his side.
“He told Melvin ‘give me the gun old man, give me the gun,’� Karon said via telephone Friday afternoon. “Then I heard him call out to me. They were struggling and he (Melvin) told me to run.�
Karon, 49, said she raced to the master bathroom from where she called 9-1-1. While on the phone, she said she could hear her husband scuffling with the intruder.
As Karon was calling for help, the suspect was beating her husband in the neck and head. The intruder then took the gun from Melvin, pointed it at the attorney’s head, and had him lead him out of the home.
The police arrived soon after, but the suspect and an accomplice who was outside the home during the struggle had already left.
“It’s obvious they did not want to kill us or hurt us,� she said of the burglary turned aggravated robbery. “When I ran into the room I saw the attacker, we looked at each other face-to-face. If he had not wanted witnesses he could have chased me down, kicked in the bathroom door and killed me.�
The Boneau’s have an alarm system and surveillance video shows the two suspects.
“The surveillance video shows they were in our house for 30 minutes before Melvin heard any noise,� she said.
Groves Police Det. Kevin White said the video proves there were two suspects.
Both are black males who appear to range in age from early to mid 20's. The one who attacked the home owner was dressed in a black muscle shirt and black shorts while the other had on a light colored muscle shirt and light colored shorts. They both fled on foot, taking with them the home owner's pistol as well as a laptop computer, DVD player, camera and jewelry, White said.
Melvin, who suffered from meningitis as a child and has chronic back problems, suffered severe bruising, a busted upper lip, sore back and numerous cuts and abrasions, his wife said.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact the Groves Police Department at 962-0244 or EasTex Crime Stoppers at 724-8477.
