Ohio ? Dr. Kenny McComas has dealt with some rather notorious criminals during his decades of prison counseling.

But the retired Baptist preacher is working now at the other end of the law-enforcement spectrum – he’s catching crime suspects.

Helping to rehabilitate criminals was a choice for McComas, while catching suspects became a matter of self-defense for the 77-year-old Ohio man who still holds a Bible in one hand but packs big-time heat in the other.

McComas used a lay-in-wait tactic with a loaded gun and a telephone in the master bedroom of his modest ranch to apprehend an intruder during an afternoon break-in March 31.

McComas wasn’t quite as effective Saturday, however, when he was accosted in his bedroom at 6:30 a.m. But less than 10 hours later, Rittman police had arrested Casey P. Wood, 18, and Charles W. Mattingly, 21, on the strength of leads that McComas provided.