Video shows the moments a couple chased off a man attempting to enter their home. The Martin County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of 46-year-old Jonathan Richards after several people reported Richards attempting to enter their homes. Sheriff John Budensiek said the incidents happened late Tuesday night along Ocean Boulevard in Jensen Beach. Homeowners recall fearing for their livesWPBF 25 News spoke with two victims, Lisa and Chris, who caught the suspect on camera and the interaction that followed. “I was sleeping, and I heard a noise, and I said to my husband, did you hear that? He said, oh, that was just me snoring. And then I was like, no, I heard something,” Lisa said. Lisa then walked out of her bedroom to check what was going on.“I see this scary devil looking in my window, and I screamed like a primal scream,” Lisa told WPBF.Richards is seen on the home security video standing at their front door and opening it. A picture of him shows two horn tattoos on his head. “The last time I screamed like that was when I gave birth to my son. That's how primal it was,” Lisa said. She ran towards the door, and her husband Chris followed. “My husband had a shotgun. I screamed at him, and he picked up his stuff and he left his boots,” she said. Lisa and Chris, shotgun in hand, can be seen running out the front door and chasing after Richards. Chris can be heard yelling at Richards and asking him what he was doing and who he was. Lisa said this was always her biggest fear. “I always said, what would I do? And you know what I would do? Exactly what I did — chase that **** around. That's what I would do, and that's what I did,” she said. Suspect arrested after several more attemptsRichards took off but the Martin County Sheriff said he didn’t stop trying to enter homes. “He was confronted by a man with a shotgun in one of the apartments, and instead of running away like you would expect most criminals to do and leaving the area, he simply transitioned and went to another location within the same community and continued to try to do burglaries,” Budensiek said. Budensiek said deputies arrived and saw him attempt to enter at least four more units before they were able to surround him.“They gave him commands. He did not comply; he took off running down Ocean Boulevard there, ran a short distance before he realized that it was actually a canine handler giving him commands, and he complied,” he said. Budensiek said Richards admitted to coming to Florida just three days before he was arrested and said he came from Alabama but did not have a permanent address anywhere. “We do know that he's a felon. He's actually a sex offender from the state of Alabama who did not register in the state of Florida when he came into our state, so he's been charged with that,” he said.As for what that sex offense was, Budensiek said detectives are still working to get that information.“We know he's a felon. We know he's been arrested numerous times. I don't know how many, and I don't know all the states he's been arrested in. That's another thing our detectives are trying to sort through right now,” he said. Richards is seen in the video with several bags, but Budensiek said they haven’t been able to find them. “As they were reviewing some of the surveillance photos from the residents there, those packs seem to grow larger as he moved from one apartment to another apartment. So the inference there is that he could potentially have been getting items from these apartments,” he told WPBF. He said they are asking people in the area to keep an eye out for the bags. “These are large, kind of like camping backpack-looking items, so call us so we can recover them, sort through the items that are in them, and try to locate more victims,” Budensiek added.Budensiek said Richards was not armed when they found him. “He's a bad guy, he's a bad dude, and I'm glad we were able to take him into custody. He's lucky he was taken to custody. He almost got shot by a homeowner, who had he shot him, we would be standing here and I'd be telling you he did a good job and did what a homeowner should do,” Budensiek said. Victims are happy to be OKIf Chris had shot Richards, the incident would have fallen under Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws. However, Chris said he’s glad it didn’t come to that. "I wouldn't want to have that on my conscience. I’m very godly, and I'd rather just hit him in the head with the gun. I wouldn't want to ever have to shoot anybody,” Chris said. Lisa said she doesn’t know why their door was unlocked but said it could have been a mistake made out of comfort. “I thought I was safe. I know a lot of people don't lock their doors. They will now,” she said. The couple is thankful to be OK and happy to know Richards is behind bars. Richards is being held in the Martin County Jail without bond on several charges, including attempted burglary and resisting arrest.Detectives are working to piece together past crimes and locate any other potential victims.Top headlines:West Palm Beach financial advisor talks impact of new tariffsStay up-to-date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25 Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.