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When a thrown brick busted out a store window at the Molly Pitcher Mini Mart in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, at 11:30 p.m. on March 28, an hour and a half after store hours, owner Merlony Colaco was ready. He grabbed the shotgun that he'd purchased after two previous bust-and-grab burglaries that month, and he snuck up behind the robber, who was stuffing packs of cigarettes into a trash bag. "The intruder's head was covered with a shirt" to mask the identity of the thief, reported the Chambersburg Public Opinion.
When Colaco got the drop on the intruder and the mask was removed, the intruder turned ...