A burglar met his match when he broke into the wrong house and found himself facing the wrong Marine. This encounter is fortunate for the soldier’s family, but definitely, one that this crook will never forget for all the wrong reasons.
After seven months of deployment in Afghanistan, 22-year-old U.S. Marine Infantryman Alex Pohle finally got a chance to enjoy a vacation in his family home near the 12400 blocks of East Desmet Road in Spokane Valley. After going out for a short shopping trip with his wife, the Marine sensed something was off in his parent’s home when they came back.
The front door was kicked in and their pets were outside. The soldier knew that something was definitely wrong.
Corporal Pohle told his wife to stay in the car and carefully made his way inside the house. He searched quietly, preparing himself for anything or anyone who obviously trespassed in his family’s property.
As it turned out, the soldier was right to assume that someone, an unwelcome visitor, was truly inside their home without them knowing. The burglar who broke into the house heard what Corporal Pohle just said to his wife and was trying to hide inside the bedroom. When he sensed that the soldier was about to find him, he immediately closed the room’s door, thinking that this would stop Corporal Alex Pohle from catching him. It was not such a good idea.
The crook was not meant to get away with it.
Corporal Pohle continued on his silent search for the perpetrator and finally found him hiding in his parent’s bedroom. He kicked the door open and found the guy, jewelry scattered on the floor around him. The burglar immediately made a run for it but he was no match for the soldier who just spent months away from his family to serve in Afghanistan.
As soon as the Marine got hold of the burglar, his training kicked in and he instinctively put him in a headlock and placed his knee on the burglar’s head. The thief almost got away with a bag of jewelry and hunting gear. Thanks to Corporal Pohle’s quick thinking and action, the man was subdued even before he caused real damage or loss.
The soldier and his father stayed on top of the perpetrator until the police arrived. He was later identified as Christopher Schwanke, 43 years old, and a man no stranger to breaking the law. While waiting for the police to arrive, Corporal Pohle and his father heard all sorts of pleading from the thief, trying to convince them to let him go before the police came to get him. But he did something wrong by breaking inside the house, and the Marine is not someone who tolerates such wrongdoing.
Minutes later, cops came and arrested the man caught red-handed by the Marine.
Once in custody, the police brought the man to the hospital so he could get checked. The soldier did not hold back in wrestling the man who made the mistake of robbing his home and putting his family at risk. The cops eventually detained Schwanke in the Spokane County Jail for charges of Residential Burglary. It has been known that the man has around 27 years of criminal history in Spokane County.
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