SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

A 13-year-old boy scared off a ban­dit when he screamed for help at his Cal­i­for­nia home, ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the boy was asleep in the liv­ing room at 3:45 am, when a man woke him, held a knife to his throat and or­dered him to be qui­et.

The boy screamed for help, wak­ing an­oth­er rel­a­tive who was in the house at the time.

The ban­dit fled through the front door and es­caped.

Up­on check­ing the home, the boy and rel­a­tive no­ticed that a cell­phone was miss­ing.

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice said the ban­dit like­ly en­tered through the front door, which was closed but not locked at the time.