Farmer holds would-be criminals at gunpoint until deputies arrive

A Washington farmer said he is thankful for his Second Amendment rights after he held would-be criminals at gunpoint and waited for deputies to arrive.

The incident occurred on Sept. 9 around 7:00 p.m. after Sam Krautscheid and one of his sons were baling hay before making their way to the nearby Gorge Amphitheater to see country star Eric Church, according to an interview with Krautscheid published on Monday.

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Krautscheid and his boys went to see Church and get “some fancy burgers and just hang out and relax” when they noticed a small vehicle outside a farm store that the farmer figured warranted further investigation, the report noted.

“I turned [the truck around], pulled around, and parked … and walked over and looked in the car, and there’s a gas can in the passenger seat. It was a very small car,” Krautscheid said. “And in the back seat, had a massage table and a weed eater and some other items that screamed to me, you know, ‘stolen items.'”

Something did not seem right, so Krautscheid returned to his vehicle to get his firearm, and he called the authorities to alert them of a suspected burglary, he said.

“I was approaching the corner of the building. I saw an arm. I saw somebody jumped back, and I kind of cleared around the end of the building, and there was one individual close to me,” according to the father.

Another man was “coming toward me with a billy club,” he added.

Krautscheid raised his firearm to the men and ordered them to the ground.

One of the men complied while the other attempted to argue that they intended to rent the building, according to the report.

“The rear individual got down pretty quickly,” Krautscheid said. “The front individual stayed up for quite a bit, was somewhat defiant of the process, and made me nervous to the point I felt I was probably a couple of seconds away from having to put one on the ground next to him to try to get them compliant. But, thank God, I didn’t have to.”

“They could see me yelling and screaming, but they had no idea what I was dealing with,” he said regarding his sons, who watched the encounter from the family truck.

“I didn’t know if there was one person, two people, three people there,” the father of five said. One of his sons had texted their mother about the incident and touted to his friends about his father heroically holding suspects at gunpoint.

Grant County, Washington, is large, but deputies managed to arrive within six minutes and took the two men, identified as 45-year-old Glenn Richard and 28-year-old Jesus Range, into custody, the report noted.

An investigation revealed the pair was on the property for criminal reasons.

“I’m lucky because … I’ve had handgun and self-defense training classes. But in this situation, I was focused on those two individuals. I had four houses and a yard behind me and a building behind me. I am lucky nobody was back in there,” Krautscheid said.

His situation is a perfect example of why people value the Second Amendment, he added.

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“I told somebody I’m too old to take a beating from a billy club. And my friend joked to me, ‘Is there an age limit to that?'” according to Krautscheid.

“He didn’t bring [the billy club] just to carry for looks.”