Police say two teens are in custody after they bound and gagged an elderly woman in her home and then stole her car.
It happened late Wednesday morning at a home on Laverne Street in Bryant.
Sgt. Todd Crowson, a spokesman for the Bryant Police Department, said one of the teens knocked on the 82-year-old victim's door and asked to use the telephone. He then asked to use the bathroom and the woman allowed him inside, Crowson said.
The second teen then came into the home and "put a gun to her face," Crowson said, noting the teens threw the woman's walking cane across the room and forced her to sit in a chair. They then taped her hands and feet together and taped a gag into her mouth before stealing her car keys and leaving in the stolen vehicle, Crowson said.
The victim was able to free herself enough to call police a short time later.
"She was a tough cookie, let me tell you," Crowson said.
Authorities found the car ditched in the back parking lot of a nearby church and arrested both teens nearby.
Crowson said he couldn't identify them because they are juveniles, but he said he believed they were 16 and 17 and that one of them lives just outside of the victim's neighborhood.
The victim — who didn't know either teen — wasn't hurt.
"Just shook up real bad," Crowson said.