A 26-year-old Wasilla man who threatened the owner of a home he was burglarizing with the homeowner's own gun didn't get far, Alaska State Troopers said.

Officers arrested him in the driveway of the residence he'd robbed, troopers reported in an online dispatch.

Troopers said 26-year-old Devin J. Rudolph, of Wasilla, broke into a home on Begich Drive near Wasilla shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday and had taken several items, including a firearm, when the homeowner interrupted the burglary. Rudolph, who troopers said had armed himself with the homeowner's gun, threatened the homeowner with it, according to the troopers' account.

But troopers had been told of the burglary in progress and officers from the agency's Crime Suppression Unit arrived in time to arrest Rudolph in the home's driveway, they said.