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An 80-year-old former high school principal — who Richmond police say trapped a burglar in his bathroom — said Friday that he would not stand for such an intrusion.

Police say they were called about a burglary shortly before 1 a.m. on July 12 at a home in the 3100 block of Terminal Avenue in South Richmond. After swarming the home and entering, they found Herman Leonard Carter Jr. tightly grasping the exterior doorknob of the living room bathroom.

Trapped inside was Jermaine T. Prentiss, 32, of Henrico County, according to police. Prentiss was charged with burglary.

“He didn’t have enough strength to break my grip. That was his problem,” Carter said.

Carter said he never considered fleeing from an intruder in his home.

“This is my house,” he said in an interview at his home Friday.

Some of Carter’s family members had gone to a comedy club on the night of July 11, with plans to come back to Carter’s house sometime around midnight.

In the meantime, Carter had gone to bed, but he came downstairs in his pajamas after hearing a loud noise, he said.