Posted March 27, 2018 1:57 pm by Comments

By John Falkenberg

AUSTIN, TX — A man was rather rudely awoken when a random, odd man was found to be standing in his and his wife’s bedroom, armed with a stick and one of his steak knives.

I’m not sure what the intruder thought he could gain from the combination, but it wasn’t enough to prevent him from being apprehended by the man he was assailing, who just happened to be a former law enforcement officer.

As CBS Austin reports:

Richard Brent Prieto, 32, is charged for burglary of habitation with intent to commit assault. According to the arrest affidavit, on March 4, 2018 at around 2:45 a.m., Robert Rodriguez and his wife were asleep when they woke up to an unknown man holding a stick and a steak knife at the foot of their bed…

“I sat up and said, ‘what the hell is going on,’ and he goes, ‘hey man . . . my wife is under the house and Chuck Norris is waiting for me and I’m having a hard time’,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez, a former sheriff’s deputy, said that’s when his law enforcement training kicked in. “I’m just slowly reaching for my weapon and he’s talking and all of …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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