Mobile homeowner holds intruder at gunpoint; wife says man was peeping through window

MOBILE, AL.
Thomas Doughtery, 43, of Prairieville, Louisiana was arrested after he allegedly tried to break into a home on Delwood Drive South around 10 a.m. Friday morning.

Thomas Doughtery

The homeowner says she was in the shower when she noticed a man peeping through a window. She immediately jumped out of the shower and called her husband on the phone.

When the husband arrived, he found the man outside the home taking items from the wife's suv.

He was able to hold Doughtery at gunpoint until police arrived.
Police arrested Dougherty and charged him with menacing, attempted burglary, and breaking and entering a vehicle.