CLEVELAND, Ohio – Here’s one way to stop a man behind the wheel of a stolen truck: hoist the vehicle’s rear end with a forklift and wait for police.

That's what a McMahan's Wrecking employee did Wednesday afternoon when a suspected thief showed up at the West Side junkyard in a stolen truck.

“I had been looking for this guy for weeks,” said owner Donnie McMahan. “The police always come by to let us know who to be on the lookout for.”

McMahan said he called police as soon as he spotted the suspect from his office window. Then he went outside to stall the man. The suspect became agitated and looked as if he was going to drive off, so McMahan ordered an employee to raise the truck’s back tires off the ground with a forklift.

“You’re going to jail now, you punk,” McMahan told the nervous driver.

Police arrived minutes later and arrested the suspect. The officers got a kick out of the junkyard’s unorthodox maneuver, according to McMahan.

“The wheels were just spinning away,” McMahan said. “[The suspect] looked a little surprised. He wasn’t going anywhere.”

Police are withholding the suspect’s name until charges are filed.