Couple says intruders posed as police in home invasion

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Police are searching for the men they say broke into a Young Street home in Mooresville early Wednesday morning and assaulted the people who lived there.                  
 
Two men wearing black broke in and were armed, police said.
 
The homeowners were assaulted before the intruders took off.
 
Arley and Misty Brooks jumped from their beds around 2:30 a.m. when two men claiming to be police officers banged on their front door.
 
"They had their faces covered like they were SWAT or something.

They wore toboggans on their heads that had 'Police' on them," the couple said.
 
The men said they had a search warrant to look for drugs and guns, the couple said. "The men immediately ordered them to the floor."
 
"They kicked both us to the floor put us in zip straps behind our backs," the wife said. 
 
As the Brooks were tied up, they said the men ransacked the home and assaulted the couple when one of them tried to break free.
 
"They took a 12-gauge shotgun the butt of it and they slammed it in my nose and my mouth and busted my lips," Arley Brooks said.
 
Brooks said the men violated his wife.
 
"Ripped her clothes off," he said.
 
The assailants threatened to hurt their 11-year-old son who was in the next room sleeping.
 
The couple said the men took $200 dollars, their house and car keys and their prescription medicine.

The Brooks are shaken up but thankful they survived.

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