HOUSTON -- A northwest Harris County family said they were treated like criminals after their home was burglarized, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.

On the night before Thanksgiving, Ramandeep Singh said thieves broke into his family's bathroom window and ransacked his home. He said about $15,000 worth of stuff was stolen.

Singh said he called the Harris County Sheriff's Office for help.

"That night we were actually robbed twice," Singh said. "Once by the actual burglars, who we don't know who they were, and secondly by the sheriff's department, who we knew who they were."

He said he believes the deputies were troubled by his turban. He wears it as a member of the Sikh faith. He said he also believes the deputies were also afraid of his sister's kirpan, another religious symbol.

"He's holding her and pointing the Taser (gun) at her," Singh said. "And I'm standing right there. I'm like, what's going on?"

"I didn't appreciate the way that I was treated that day," Singh's sister, Kawaljeet Kaur, said. "I'm a human and I would have expected to be treated like a human."

Singh said soon, he, his sister, mother and another relative were in handcuffs. He said he was locked up in the back of a sheriff's cruiser.

He said a deputy claimed he knew about Muslims and asked if they knew about the terror in Mumbai.

"After that experience, I just felt I saw the face of racism," Singh said.

Singh said he was held for two hours, released with no charges filed and no criminals caught.

"I was disrespected. I was humiliated, treated like a criminal when I was the one who had just suffered a crime," he said.

A sheriff's department spokesman said that if the claims are true, the department does not agree with this type of behavior. The allegations are under review by the command staff and that investigation will determine what happens next.