Texas Pastor Benny Homes took matters into his own hands when packages routinely kept disappearing from his front porch. Surveillance video showed a woman casually walking up to his home and taking the packages.
According to his wife Pat, Homes was determined to stop the thief once and for all even if he had to wait all day and night to catch her in the act. Armed with his hand gun, he set up two decoy boxes in front of his home and waited until the culprit came.
Captured on video, the package thief turned out to be Laurie Ferguson, a 52-year-old neighbor who parked her red car in front of the house and walked up to take the packages as if nothing was amiss.
Homes burst out of his front door before she could escape, pinned her down and held her at gunpoint until the police arrived to take over.
The chronic kleptomaniac even had her grandchildren sitting in the back of her car as she allegedly attempted to take the packages.
Homes recognized Ferguson on his front porch from two years before when she told him she was looking for her missing dog. Apparently, she was using that same line every time she was caught red-handed on someone else's property. When she tried to use the same excuse again, Homes did not let her fool him twice.
"This time you found him. Bow-wow," he told the grandmother.
Baytown police arrested Ferguson and, upon searching her house, found at least 30 packages in her closet. She is to be charged with robbery and possibly other counts for her habitual theft.
No charges were pressed against Homes since it is legal to protect your property with a firearm in Texas.
Being a man of the Church, Pastor Homes already had a gift prepared for Ferguson: a cap embroidered with the word "Forgiven."
