Home Invasion Robbers Target Wrong Home in Tehama County

Home Invasion Robbers Target Wrong Home in Tehama County
The intersection of of Proberta Road and San Benito Avenue in Gerber, Calif., in August 2023. Google Maps/Screenshot via California Insider
Rudy Blalock
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Two home invasions occurred early Saturday when intruders at first entered the wrong home and encountered a sleeping family of seven, before locating their target next door with a single resident inside, according to the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office.

The sheriff’s office said in a press release Feb. 24 that deputies were notified around 4 a.m. and sent to the area of Proberta Road and San Benito Avenue in Gerber, a small city in central Northern California, for a reported single-home invasion before discovering another took place at an adjacent home.