CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- "So I bought a kit, tried it and as they say the rest is history," said Steven Vitek.
Vitek loves beer so much that he made brewing it a hobby.
"You just hook it up to a propane torch, kegs go on top of here that's about where this was the other night when we were wrestling around on the floor," Vitek said.
Vitek was brewing beer in his garage. He just stepped in the house for a minute, and when he came out he found Michael Farmer.
"I've cleaned up the language for here, but I said what are you doing in my house, the guy turned around and looked and had a can in his hand," recalled Vitek.
Farmer was allegedly rummaging around the refrigerator. Vitek says he decided then and there that this alleged burglar was not getting away. His wife called the police.
"I told this guy you get over here you're going to sit down and wait for the police and he was kind of motioning like he was going to leave so I grabbed him by his jacket and sat him right here," he said.
Vitek says that Farmer complained and then once he heard the siren of the approaching police cars he started to get agitated and tried to leave.
"He made a bolt for the driveway here, so I grabbed him and tackled him. We were rolling around on the floor close to the hot beer".
Vitek says that the 17-year-old claimed he had a gun and a knife; turns out he was not armed.
"I would have tried to handle it, in the mood I was in. I would have tried to disarm him," said Vitek.
Vitek says he hopes this arrest might encourage Farmer to get his life together.
