FILE - A police patrol car sits in a neighborhood. The teenager, identified by local news media as Avery Cormier, was woken up by the sound of the intruder.
She went to investigate and was confronted by the burglar who was attempting to steal items, according to police. "I was like, ‘Get out of my house, get out of my house!’ And he looked very shocked," Cormier told WHDH 7 News. "I was screaming at the top of my lungs." Cormier then grabbed two steak knives from a kitchen drawer and followed the intruder outside as he fled the scene.
The suspect was later identified by police as 58-year-old Joseph Ridge of Bourne, Massachusetts. "The suspect in this case is a career criminal who was arrested after terrorizing a 14-year-old girl in her own home.
Hopefully his arrest this time will bring this known felon to account for his crimes," said Joseph Perkins, chief of the Middleborough Police Department.