LEAGUE CITY, Texas — A League City homeowner came home for lunch only to find two suspected robbers inside. The knife-wielding men tied the 62-year-old man up with a necktie after forcing him to show them where all his valuables were.

The robbery happened at a house in the 4200 block of Masters Drive about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. League City police are looking to see if the home break in is tied to a series of home burglaries they have been investigating the last two months, Sgt. David Hausam said.

“Right now, we aren’t sure,” Hausam said. “There are some similarities, but we’ve had so many it’s hard to tell right now.”

Hausam said the homeowner told police when he got home he walked in on two men rifling through his stuff. One of the men held a knife to the resident and forced him to walk around the house, pointing out where he kept his more expensive items.

The robbers used a neck tie to tie the man’s hands and locked him inside a bathroom, Hausam said. The homeowner was not injured.

The robbers took off in what witnesses told police was a gray Honda that has a discolored door. Police had not cataloged what had been stolen from the house as of Thursday afternoon.

Hausam said police have some evidence from the scene they will use to try to match Thursday’s break in with other home burglaries.

If connected, Thursday’s was the first in which the homeowner walked in on the thieves. It also comes on the heels of an alert sent out by League City police last week.

In that alert police warned of a series of daytime burglaries, most west of Calder Road and south of FM 518 in which the suspects parked their car in the driveway of the victims’ house. When the homeowner would come home later in the day he or she would find the house had been burglarized.