HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A east Houston family’s home was turned upside down during an unusual home invasion.<\/p>\n
Rogaciano and Eugenia Sosa said they were having a brick oven built at their home on Avenue I on Saturday morning when surveillance cameras showed a woman with bright red hair walking past the workmen and into the Sosas’ home.<\/p>\n
The couple told Eyewitness News in Spanish that they feared for the safety of their four grandchildren, one of whom is just four years old.<\/p>\n
It turns out the intruder wasn’t armed, but the Sosas say that didn’t stop her from wreaking havoc.<\/p>\n
They say she made her way to the kitchen at the back of their home and, after knocking over a water dispenser, poured fruit juice on herself and began tearing open a bag of beans.<\/p>\n
They say she then took refuge under their dining table.<\/p>\n
Rogaciano Sosa said he told his granddaughter to call police but that the intruder begged her not to, saying that the police were trying to kill her.<\/p>\n
They called the police anyway and then began dragging her out from under the table.<\/p>\n
The couple says they pulled her all the way to their front door before calling over one of the workmen to assist.<\/p>\n
Video shows them dragging her across the threshold. She then slithers down their front steps before crawling away from the property on her hands and knees.<\/p>\n
The Sosas say she made it across the street where she tried climbing atop a fire engine.<\/p>\n
Police say they detained her under an emergency order, but that the district attorney’s office declined to accept criminal charges since it appeared she was having a mental health crisis.<\/p>\n
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