Immokalee woman asks for drink after home invasion

IMMOKALEE, Fla. – One elderly woman is saying the two men who robbed her would be in bad shape today if her German Shepherd wasn’t deaf.

“My German Shephard is old. She’s deaf now, or she would’ve tore their **** up,” Lessor is heard telling dispatchers after burglars left her home near Immokalee.

Police are looking for at least two suspects, and possibly a third, who broke into 78-year-old Mildred Lessor’s home Tuesday evening around 7:45 p.m.

“They said this is no joke put your head here no keep it straight they put the gun right here,” Lessor said, pointing to her head.

The two suspects covered Lessor’s head with a dish towel and used socks grabbed from her laundry line to bound her hands. At least one of the men held her at gunpoint while another searched her home for valuable items and cash.

But they couldn’t keep the elderly woman from speaking what was on her mind.

“He said ‘Is this all the money you got?'” Lessor remembers. “I said ‘Who said I had a lot of money? If you need money the checkbook is in there. Write yourself a check.'”

The men did not write themselves a check. But before running off, they did take eight of Lessor’s guns, loading at least one of them with bullets, and a box of jewelry.

“Thought maybe they wouldn’t see they were any good and drop them back off at the mailbox,” Lessor said of the jewelry.

She suspects that the men tied her up because they were warned she was armed and unafraid.

“He knew or was told that I had guns and would shoot,” Lessor said.

Police are still looking for the suspects, who Lessor said were both masked – one very thin and the other with a heavy accent.

After suspects jumped into a car parked along State Road, Lessor was able to free one of her hands to call 9-1-1.

“Ah, my nerves are shot,” Lessor is heard telling dispatchers. “Tell them to come get this arm out of me so I can make a cocktail. Jesus!”