Thieves attack ex-cop and wife

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As I noted when I first wrote about the proposed regulations (read that column here: Your having received Medicaid will have no impact on your application for a change to E-2 status. Under current rules, U.S. Citizenship Three burglars broke into the Brooklyn home of a retired NYPD lieutenant, pistol-whipped and slashed him, sexually assaulted his wife and stole the couple's car, police said.

The terrifying robbery happened about 5:30 a.m. Monday in a house in Marine Park.

The thieves entered the house and beat the 72-year-old retired lieutenant, then slashed him in the face with a box cutter.

The men turned to the lieutenant's wife and sexually assaulted her. She remains hospitalized.

The burglars drove off in the couple's blue Honda Civic after the assaults.

Police also couldn't find the lieutenant's gun, so they're working under the belief that the robbers took it as well, sources said.

Police sources said investigators are looking at the possibility the home invasion is linked to debts amassed by one of the detective's sons. The son is being treated as a witness to the crime, sources said.

The home was previously burglarized in July, a police source said.

Neighbors said the lieutenant's 47-year-old son suffers from mental illness, possibly bipolar disorder, and is addicted to pills.

He showed up on the block in recent weeks after a long stay at a rehab facility, and trouble followed soon after, neighbors said.

One neighbor said the son was connected to a past burglary at the house, and he suspects one of his friends, who goes by the nickname “D,” was involved in Monday's robbery.

“His son walks up and down the street at 3 a.m. talking to himself,” said the neighbor, who wouldn't give his name. “He's a drug addict on pills. He's in and out of rehab all the time.”

Other neighbors described the son screaming in the street.

“You'd see him running down the street, partially clothed, screaming. He should be institutionalized,” another neighbor said. “He was away for months, and he shows up out of the blue, then all of this stuff starts happening.”

Cops had not made any arrests Monday night.