Chris Brown Home Invasion Robbery Prisoner Held in Closet

Chris Brown's home was hit early Wednesday morning in a home attack theft and the looters held his auntie at gunpoint, secured her a storage room and flipped around the spot ... TMZ has learned.

It went down at around 2 AM at the San Fernando Valley house Chris just purchased. Three equipped men constrained their way in the house and discovered the auntie, put a firearm in her face and requested her into the storage room. Law requirement lets us know the home intruders then stripped the house, took cash and other property and fled.

The close relative called 911 and cops dashed to the scene, yet the criminals were a distant memory.

Chris was not home at the time.