After catching a burglar near their house last Friday, Jeffrey Stephens decided to sit on him while waiting for the police to arrive.

Stephens reportedly caught the burglar at a neighbor's house, going through the house owner's van at around 3:30 a.m.

Upon catching the prowler, Stephens demanded an explanation, to which the thief replied that the van was his friends' and that he was going through his things. The burglar lost his jacket, shirt, shoes and sock in the struggle.

"No it's not," Stephens said, who afterwards grabbed the prowler, and the two engaged in a scuffle.

Stephens's wife Patricia, who reportedly called the police after hearing their gate squeak and their dog bark.

"My husband's sitting on somebody," she said in her 9-1-1 call.

Patricia Stephens saw her 200-pound husband sitting on top of what she described as a "skinny, younger kid" who police later identified as 20-year old Christopher M. Kokesch of Two Rivers.

Police Lt. John Mohr said that Jeffrey Stephens sustained only minor injuries, and did not need medical attention.

Kokesch was released on a $200 bail that afternoon, and was scheduled to appear in the Manitowoc County Circuit Court on Nov. 5, for the setting of a preliminary hearing date.