DELAND, Fla. -- Two burglars were no match for a DeLand woman. While they were trying to steal her stuff from her home on Minnesota Avenue, she walked in on them. When they ran off, she chased them down.

Jermont Guilford and Clyde Williams probably thought the home they were breaking into was an easy mid-morning target. But they didn't know there was a teenage girl home sick upstairs and that a mom frustrated by four burglaries in the last couple years was coming back home.

"She says, I guess, 'Not on my watch,' and she ended up chasing the young man out of the house," said Randel Henderson, DeLand Police Department.

Homeowner Debbie Dunn was right behind both burglars in her car until she got a few blocks away to Adelle Street. That's where off-duty Daytona Beach Police Officer Bill Batten was and he helped tackle 20-year-old Jermont Guilford.

"He actually tussled with the young man. In the sense that the young man wanted to get away and the Daytona Beach officer said, 'It's not going to happen on my watch,'" Henderson said.

DeLand police arrived and arrested the man and he told police, if they went to a home just a few more blocks down the road, they would find a car used in the burglary attempt and they would find 21-year-old Clyde Williams.

"Fortunately, in this case, it worked out well for everyone who it should have worked out for," Henderson said.

The mother who surprised the burglars said you never know how you'll react until it happens. Both men were taken to jail and one has since bonded out.