PROVIDENCE — Eight-year-old Benjamin Ford says the intruder who showed up at his house in the middle of the night Saturday had red gloves and a red jacket but definitely was not Santa.

The boy awoke to see the man trying to unhook the cables to a television set.

According to Benjamin’s parents, Donald and Christine Ford, of 508 Chalkstone Ave. in Smith Hill, the intruder apparently decided that the set was too heavy and took a Play Station and several games instead. Christine Ford said the man also went into the living room, snatched several wrapped presents that were sitting on the floor, took a wheelchair belonging to their 16-year-old disabled daughter and made off with the family car.

Christine Ford said she and her husband, a security guard for a firm in West Kingston, believe the thief came into their bedroom while they were sleeping and took her husband’s wallet and car keys out of his pants.

“We were in the living room looking at where the presents and wheelchair used to be when our son came wandering into room and told us a man had come into his room.”

The boy told a reporter that the intruder definitely knew he was awake because “he gave me four quarters and a dollar bill. He said, ‘Go buy some soda.’ ”

The couple’s 1993 Subaru was still missing, but an anonymous donor replaced the wheelchair.

—Richard C. Dujardin