He managed to get the woman, believed to be in her 90's, to go down to the basement with him to look at pipes and while the two were down there, another man came into the house and ransacked several rooms.
When he was finished, both men left quickly and took off in what witnesses in the area say was a dark colored Jeep Cherokee.
The elderly woman was not injured in the home invasion; police do not yet know what was taken.
Police believe the two men may have been communicating with cell phones using wireless earpieces.
