Recently retired Bellator light heavyweight Melvin Manhoef is not a man you want to rob. Manhoef told MMAFighting that he informed police that burglars were casing his house. When the Netherlands police force did nothing, Manhoef took matters into his own 205-pound hands. “If it happened again, I’m going to do it again, because it’s my family.”
Manhoef claimed that he had informed the police that burglars were casing his house, including placing paper in the doorway to see if anyone was home. Security camera footage revealed a man looking inside his home. One night, Manhoef and his wife were out when neighbors called them to let them know the men were back.
Bellator’s Melvin Manhoef Chases Down, Apprehends 3 Burglars After Attempted Home Invasion
Manhoef rushed home, only to find the burglars absent. He lay in wait outside the home until they reappeared, and gave chase.
“I pulled my car in front of them, and I was watching them. They saw me, and they were looking at me, and they took a slight turn and went away. After that, I was chasing them.
I chased them, and then I crashed into them on the back side, and I couldn’t stop them because they were still going fast. And then I go to the side, and I hit them from the side.
So they go into the, how do you call it, the side of the road, and the car was, like, turning and slipping. And we crashed.
So I crashed, I crashed the whole car, and then the car stopped in the middle of the road, like horizontal, in the middle of the road. And I jumped out of the car and I said, ‘Come over here,’ because they had their burglar stuff to go in the house.
I said, ‘Open the window,’ and I smashed the window in, and I pulled the guy out, opened the door, and put the guy on the ground.
I was yelling, I was going like crazy. Everybody put their hands and knees on the ground. Some people were helping, they came out of their houses, and they called 911. In a few minutes, they were there.”
Manhoef called it a “shame” that he had to escalate, but believes he did the right thing by defending his family home.
“Because if they’re going to burgle in and my wife is there, they tie my wife or my kid up, I couldn’t forgive myself. My instinct was, you cannot come around my family. This is like, rule No. 1. Don’t touch my family. If you do that, yeah, you’re going to pay for it.
If I have to face charges, it is what it is. I did something wrong because I hit the car, but I hit it with a purpose, because I know they were in my house.”
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