A California pastor on Thanksgiving used jujutsu and his mixed martial arts experience to fight off a suspected burglar who broke into a church with an ax, NBC News reported.

Pastor Nick Neves told Fox News Digital that he went to the First Family Church in Antioch, California, early on Thursday morning to investigate an alarm that went off. As he entered  he discovered an intruder “coming out with a handful of our stuff.”

“I told him ‘stop,’ basically he was under citizen’s arrest and he tried to flee, and I grabbed a hold of him and we ended up wrestling around in the parking lot for about 15 minutes until the cops could get there,” Neves told NBC.

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