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Erick Olsen Bjorntwedt

80-Year-Old Holds Intruder At Bay With Pellet Gun

POSTED: 2:59 pm EDT April 1, 2008
UPDATED: 3:23 pm EDT April 1, 2008

An 80-year-old man held a robber at bay with a pellet gun until police arrived at his home on Tuesday.

Anne Arundel police responded at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday to the 100 block of Sandy Beach Road in Pasadena for the report of an attempted robbery.

When officers arrived at the home, they found the 80-year-old resident holding the cowering suspect at gunpoint with a pellet gun, police said.

Police searched the intruder and found a checkbook, tools, a credit card and several prescription drug bottles that linked him to a theft from an automobile and another burglary on Sandy Beach Road, police said.

A search of surrounding yards revealed a cache of stolen tools taken in the theft from the automobile on Sandy Beach Road, police said.

Erick Olsen Bjorntwedt, 27, was charged with first-, second- and fourth-degree burglary, theft, attempted auto theft and several counts of destruction of property.

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