An elderly Berwyn woman was barricaded in a bathroom of her apartment last week while an intruder stole her TV, police said.

The 82-year-old woman, who lives on the 1300 block of south Maple Avenue, reported that at about 1:30 p.m. Oct. 21, she answered her doorbell to find a man wearing a blue sweatshirt and jeans and pantyhose over his head was standing at her apartment door.

She told police the man put a blanket over her head before she was knocked to the floor and pushed into a bathroom. The man, described as 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, barricaded shut the bathroom door with a cabinet, according to reports.

The woman said she wanted her grandson to come into the bathroom with her, but the intruder wouldn’t allow it, police reports said. The grandson’s age was not disclosed.

The man took the grandson into a bedroom, and left about 15 minutes later with her 45-inch flatscreen TV, police reports said. The woman was able to escape from the bathroom about 10 to 15 minutes later and take her grandson outside, where she asked a passerby to call police, according to reports.

Berwyn Police Chief William Kushner said the case remained under investigation.

A witness told investigators that he saw a light-skinned man, about 5-foot-6 and about 140 pounds wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with the hood drawn close around his face in the alley at about that time, but he ran away when he heard sirens, police reports said.

Video surveillance captured images of a a man, dressed in a dark jacket and jeans, step out of a newer-model red Ford van parked nearby at about 1:15 p.m., according to police reports.