With home invasions on the rise in Durham’s Trinity Park, residents are warned to beware of anyone who comes knocking at their door dressed as a doctor. Here’s what happened in a neighborhood in New York:

They were well-dressed when they knocked on the door of a Huntington home last month and said they had information about President Barack Obama’s health care plan.

That’s how they got inside to commit a violent home invasion on Aug. 29, a Suffolk prosecutor said Monday.

Benjamin Thompson had a stethoscope around his neck and Natalie Desir carried a clipboard with pamphlets, Assistant District Attorney Glenn Kurtzrock said after their arraignments in Riverhead.

Who knows? Maybe this a new ACORN fund-raising ploy.