When someone attempted to steal a 60-inch flat screen TV from a home in La Crosse yesterday, three roommates did all they could to stop him.

20-year-old Nicholas Glynn from Grand Meadow, Minnesota was arrested by La Crosse Police and charged with attempted burglary.

We talked with the roommates about how they say they caught the suspected burglar in the act.

When Levi Peterson was listening to music in his bedroom at about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, he heard a lot of wrestling happening outside his bedroom. When he opened his door, he saw someone trying to carry his $1,600 flat-screen TV out the front door.

"We started arguing a little bit there and he’s like, ‘Oh, no, it’s nothing like you see,'" Peterson said.

But it was clear to Peterson what the guy was up to.

"He was half way between the door and the porch, so I grabbed him by the collar and pulled him inside and made him set the TV down."

That’s when Peterson's roommate Volante Feist woke up.

"I was in bed and I heard [stomps hard on the floor], so I got outta bed, threw my pants on, grabbed the nearest foreign object and ran down the stairs trying not to trip.”

When Feist saw Peterson wrestle a guy to the ground, he called the cops.

"Everybody’s yelling! The guy’s going, 'Please let me go!'” Feist recalls.

The guys say he offered them a thousand dollars if they’d let him go.

"And I was like, um, no," Peterson said.

Meanwhile, David Peaslee, a third roommate, stood by the door. "I made sure the guy stayed there with Levi," he said. And within minutes police arrived at the scene and arrested the suspect.

“Shortly after the cops showed up, I thought this could be bad for me too because of punching the guy a couple of times," Peterson said. But he says police reassured him everything would be fine.

“It’s one of those things...you see something happen and just do it. It’s not something you sit and think about," Peterson explained.

But now when he sits down to watch TV, he’ll definitely think about how he almost lost it.

The suspect, Nicholas Glynn was released yesterday afternoon on a $1,000 signature bond.

He is also accused of stealing a TV from an apartment in Winona, Minnesota in November.

Glynn’s preliminary hearing in La Crosse County Court is on March 17.