A straight-A scholar in Middleborough, Massachusetts, managed to thrust back a house intruder on Friday morning, whereas additionally serving to police arrest the tried thief.

Fourteen-year-old Avery Cormier confronted the stranger, who police later recognized as 58-year-old Joseph Ridge, with two steak knives that she grabbed from her kitchen after he broke into her home, in keeping with NBC Information' affiliate WLBT.

The teenager mentioned she was asleep and woke as much as the sound of footsteps in the home. In accordance with WLBT, she thought it may need been her mom coming again to the home to get her telephone, however quickly realized that it wasn't her mother.

In a press release on its web site, the Middleborough Police Division mentioned that Cormier caught Ridge "allegedly making an attempt to steal objects" in the home.

Straight-A Student Scares Off Home Intruder
A Massachusetts teen on Friday chased away an intruder who broke into her home and helped the police arrest him. GETTY IMAGES

The teenager informed WLBT that she confronted Ridge, with the knives in hand, and commenced "screaming on the high of my lungs to get out of my home, get out. That is actually it."

She added that "it was simply type of adrenaline" that helped her confront the suspected intruder, who then fled in a automotive, earlier than the teenager filmed him driving away. The she then referred to as 911.

The footage that Cormier captured confirmed the license plates of Ridge's automotive, serving to the police arrest him, who's presently in jail. No accidents have been reported and the teenager was unhurt, in keeping with police.

"She's a straight-A scholar. I am blessed to have a daughter like her," Cormier's mom informed WLBT.

Ridge was charged with aggravated breaking and coming into, trespassing, tried larceny, and disorderly conduct. The police mentioned that he was already out on bail for a separate incident and that he has a protracted legal file relationship again to 1980, together with a historical past of violence, with over 140 arraignments, in keeping with CBS Boston.

"I wish to commend the brave actions of this lady. Even within the midst of a particularly scary occasion, her bravery assisted us in figuring out the person believed to be liable for breaking into her dwelling," Middleborough Police Chief Joseph Perkins mentioned within the assertion.

Newsweek reached out to the Middleborough Police Division for feedback.